Blender - golemfactory/golem-rd GitHub Wiki

Useful information:

• Usual tile size is 32x32 for CPU and 256x256 for GPU.
• Max image size in Blender is 10 000 x 10 000. Typical sizes:
  • HD: 1280x720
  • Full HD: 1920x1080
  • 4k UHD: 3840x2160
  • 8k UHD: 7680x4320
• Popular sample rates: 500-1500
• Usual image formats are: exr, png and jpg.
• Typical frame rate: 24-30 fps.
• Typical number of frames in single shot: 200-900.
• Renderes comparison

Useful sites:

English

• Official Blender
• Official Forum
• Blenderartist Forum
• Blender Cloud
• Blendswap - forum with many models and scens
• Blender 3D Model Repository
• Blender Nation Models
• Turbosquid models
• TF3DM models
• Martins Upitis youtube channel - show animations done with Blender Game Engine.

Polish

• Polski Kurs Blendera
• Blenderownia

Benchmarks

• BMW scene - famous benchmark, nice scene for OpenGL viewport rendering done for BGE engigne. I contains no bitmap textures, just refelctions.
• Gooseberry benchmark file huge file for strong computers
• Blender demo files
• Blender Render Benchmark - simple scene
• Blenchmark - automated and user-aware method of benchmarking, to check how this is done
• Glassy monkeys - scene with glassy material
• Playtime - very difficult scene with fur
• Cornerstone Center ArchViz Rendering Shot - 900 frames animation with lots of building geometry and trees (check Golem Dropbox account).
• Dottlers Shoe Turntable with Studio Lightning - 180 frames animation (check Golem Dropbox account)
• Cycles Island - high number of instanced duplicated object for tress on island.
• Barcelona Pavillon (check Golem Dropbox Account)
• Braun Coffee Maker

GPU

• Availability among different, supported renderers

Python scripting in Blender

• Rendering multiple images in one Blender run

Potential problems:

• Sometimes CPU and GPU may return different results. It's a rare problem but occurs one time for Todd.