Hello everyone,

the new E-Cycles builds based on final Blender 2.81 are available now in your downloads.

Changes since 2.80 include:

September update:

- faster by default, particularly on multi-GPU setups

- much better memory management thanks to a patch by Stefan Werner

- streamlined denoiser UI

- automatic optimizations of the denoising tree. Improves denoising and rendering speed.

2. Faster baking:

- baking is now up to 20x faster by taking smart decision for optimal performance.

- baking will require a bit less memory too.

October update:

- added a remove double modifier.
- added an experimental bridge modifier.
- added bevel and crease weight to the boolean modifier for non-destructive and easy to use bevel after boolean.

November update:

- out of core Rendering for RTX (speed limited by system Ram, may require Quadros or Teslas for good performance)
- much faster rendering for RTX, now up to 2.5x faster than Blender OptiX
- further optimizations for CUDA

The course also has been updated to work on both 2.80 and 2.81.

Happy Blending!

Mathieu

E-Cycles 3.4.1 and 3.3.3 LTS availaible now!

E-Cycles 3.3.1 release available!