E-Cycles Pro + RTX 2022 free
A free beta version of E-Cycles Pro RTX 3.0 to test the 3.x features on Windows! Those builds are based on an old beta version of Blender 3.0. It is only meant for testing rendering features as some bugs can break your blend files.
The full PC version offers 3.1 and 3.2 builds currently with support for Linux. You can get the full Mac version here.
Focus on your Art
The fastest and easiest photorealistic render engine for Blender. A drop-in replacement, 100% compatible with the Blender/Cycles. You can use all your materials and add-ons while rendering up to 2x faster out of the box with NVidia GPUs. Features state of the art denoising technology (now including AI animation denoising), a streamlined UI for ease of use and fast workflows, Lightgroups in the viewport for instant feedback of lighting changes, and much more.
"Thank you for such a great product!" - Michael Bengtsson from www.Mindbender.com
You can see E-Cycles Pro 3.0 new features in action in the feature tour:
Changes since the beta and accessible in the full Pro PC version and Mac version:
- New: 3.1 version was added
- New feature: Light Linking now works with instances and will add the light IDs from the objects to the light IDs of the parent/"instantiator" object (3.0 and 3.1)
- New feature: included the new MNEE caustics patch by Olivier Maury to E-Cycles Pro 2022 as an experimental feature. You can find the builds in the "builds with manifold caustics" folder. (3.1, quick tutorial in silent movie style available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlS1HCAmJiA)
- fix: Light Linking now works properly with high sun angles/size (3.0 and 3.1)
- fix: rendering with border render overlay in a empty slot now works again (3.0 and 3.1)
- fix: rendering with shadow catcher and denoising works again properly
- New feature: experimental HIP support
- The Pro version of E-Cycles is back with support for CUDA (with HIP experimental) and CPU rendering to offer the Pro features for GTX, Intel and AMD users too (Animation Denoising uses OptiX and requires the RTX version)
- New feature: invert option for light linking
- New feature: option to render all scenes with background render
- Fix: support for old non-AVX processors
- Manual animation denoising of existing exr animations.
- all the improvements from upstream stable and master Blender
"Reithalle" by Artur Szóstakowski rendered with a stable animation at 256spp instead of 1024spp thanks to E-Cycles AI Animation Denoising with perfect stability:
Main features of E-Cycles:
- 100% compatible with Cycles
- supports all devices supported by Blender
- state of the art render speed on NVidia GPUs
- Light Linking
- state of the art denoising technology including AI animation denoising
- many new features and a streamlined UI for ease of use and fast workflows
- Light Groups in the viewport for instant feedback on changes to your lighting setup with denoising support!
- SSAA for crisp textures and detail-rich denoising
- access to both professional-grade stability and bleeding edge features to fit the needs of every project: support for Long Term Support releases, stable releases and master builds
- 30 days money back guarantee. It works as advertised or you get your money back!
- works on Windows and Linux (Mac version is available here)
Speed comparison between the $1 version of E-Cycles 2022 and K-Cycles X (their times were taken on 29th of November 2021 from their own advertising)
Made with E-Cycles
Photoscanned food animation by iMeshh made with E-Cycles and it's new AI Animation Denoising
Premiere lift group (a company that works with Zaha Hadid and Porsche, among others) switched from Unreal Engine to E-Cycles for all their still image renders and animations.
See more renders on their website!
The Distant World 2 trailer by Tim Barton was rendered 100% in E-Cycles:
You can see more examples on Tim Barton's Artstation page!
iMeshh, a store known for their extremely high quality assets, have also switched entirely to E-Cycles. Their team have made a great video about the features that helped them most in their workflow:
The Episode VII of the french team Nexus VI was made with Blender and E-Cycles.
Artists using E-Cycles
The fastest and easiest photorealistic renderer for Blender. 100% compatible with Cycles, so you can use all your materials and add-ons while rendering on average 2x faster out of the box with NVidia GPUs. Features state of the art denoising technology, a streamlined UI for ease of use and fast workflows, Lightgroups in the viewport for instant feedback of lighting changes, and much more.