Blender Cycles X is Insanely Fast on Google Colab! - Blender Tutorial
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- In this tutorial I am going to show you show to run blender version 3 with Cycles X on Google Colab to really speed up your renders. Unlike my previous tutorials, I am going to demonstrate how to install Blender 3.0 to your google drive so you don’t have to download it each time you start Colab.
I’m also going to do a render time comparison between Blender 3 and Blender 2.93 running on Google Colab and my Laptop. My laptop runs a Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics card. Blender version 3 with Cycles X on Google Colab was at least 10 times as quick as my laptop!
I’m also going to answer some of the frequently asked questions from my previous two Colab videos.
The code for this tutorial can be found here:
github.com/drmichaeldouglass/...
More of my Blender and Colab tutorials can be found here:
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Welcome 00:00
Speed Comparison 01:09
Demo File: 01:11
Some facts about Cycles X 01:31
Laptop Render Time 02:08
Colab Blender 2.94 Render Time 02:31
Colab Blender 3.0 Render Time 02:57
Tutorial Start 03:29
Connect Google Drive to Colab 04:28
Download Blender 3 Cycles X 05:13
Download Standard Blender 06:18
Unzip Blender 06:56
Copy Blender to Google Drive 08:35
Upload Blender file to Render 10:02
Set Blender File Path 10:55
Fixing Command Not Found Error 12:13
Run Blender 12:37
Close your GPU 16:39
Answering your questions 17:01
mine last one says- (What went wrong?)
F0912 19:13:06.390550 387 device.cpp:323] Device does not support queues.
*** Check failure stack trace: ***
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@ 0x28944ed (unknown)
@ 0x2897139 (unknown)
@ 0x28b5b80 ccl::Device::gpu_queue_create()
@ 0x2f3f019 ccl::PathTraceWorkGPU::PathTraceWorkGPU()
@ 0x2f3a914 ccl::PathTraceWork::create()
@ 0x2f356b2 (unknown)
@ 0x2f359b1 ccl::PathTrace::PathTrace()
@ 0x2e71361 ccl::Session::Session()
@ 0x2837a54 ccl::BlenderSession::create_session()
@ 0x2838630 ccl::BlenderSession::reset_session()
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@ 0x9858190 _PyObject_MakeTpCall
@ 0x1025c10 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault
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@ 0x9857bef PyVectorcall_Call
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@ 0x92031f3 RE_engine_render
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@ 0x920a78c RE_RenderAnim
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What went wrong?
Change OPTIX to CUDA on last line of code
@@MicroSingularity Thankyou for the reply but why cannot I use optix for cycles x..... Is it because collab gpu are incapable in raytracing? And how were you able to do it in video?
Google randomly allocated different GPU types, some support OPTIX and some don’t
@@MicroSingularity thankyou so much😁👍🏻
@@MicroSingularity You should pin this question instead my good sir
my laptop takes 1 hour to render 1 frame at 20 samples
and the Colab takes 3 min to render 1 frame at 100 samples!!!!!! this is insane!!!
You are a life saver bro
👍😀
i feel like such a nerd getting excited over this!! thank you!!
Glad it helped 😀
This Channel is a pure GEM. I like to keep this as a little secret. If more people find this, it wont stay free. Sorry everyone, I'm broke, and these kind of things are so helpful.
This is a game changer! I was just horrified about the fact my Macbook could only compute 4 frame in two hours! Thank you so much!
Amazing work man! Thanks a lot!
once again i thank thee for this cycle X tutorial
best collab tutorial I ever seen, thanks very much
Thank you! 😀
uploaded on my birth day thanks for this beautiful gift love from India😊❤❤
Works great like a magic, Thank you
Thanks for this valuable information
thanks for sharing your knowledge
i mean this is PEAK blender/nerd content all in one. THANK YOU!!! by the time i'm done with this google will no longer offer it for free 😀
Thank you 😀
Glad i found you and your video!! ❤
It works. Thankyou very much❤❤❤❤❤❤
Your efforts are worth a lot, sir.
Thanks buddy It helped a lot 😊
Wow, really awesome! Why didn't I find your channel earlier? Subscribed!
Thank you
YES! Thank you sir
Thank you so much!
Yooo THANK U MY GUY
I can finally render geonodes with 2.93
No worries 😀
thanks sir it helped me soooo much !!! thanks......
I always love your tutorial ❤️ I have one question can we render baked animation of fluid and auto car rigging bake animations in colab???
super no words thanks man
texture not coming in the rendered img
You need to package the textures into the blender file. File ->External Data->Pack all files
@@MicroSingularity Thanks It Worked
Thank you very much for sharing this tutorial. It just saved me :). I wonder, is there any way to render every next single frame but in sequence naming? Now it will always rewrite that one old render with the same name 0001 over and over again.
If you change your output file type in blender to png or similar and then in colab when you chose the output file name, I think if you use the naming convention “image_####” the # gets replaced with the frame number
Genius!
Actually, Blender renders a bit faster on LInux than on Windows. The main difference is in building BVH. So it's another layer of benefit for colab users who have Windows on their machines.
You are a saint
😀
This is great! However, when I run the last line of code, it renders but after the last sample, it gives this error: "blender: intern/cycles/integrator/../kernel/kernel_film.h:302: void ccl::film_get_pass_pixel_combined(const KernelFilmConvert*, const float*, float*): Assertion `kfilm_convert->num_components == 4' failed."
And then this: "rmdir: No such file or directory"
Please help!
It works 😊
Hi! I have a question.
There is a way to change the type of denoiser? I use the Optix one, and its to noisy.
Can i change optix to Open Image Denoiser?
if i want to render animation, then where do i put my frame range in this code?
Thanks for the tutorial, I can render normally (using the same files in the tutorial), but the rendering speed is very slow. May I ask why this happens?
This is a really cool concept, but I'm finding that it's taking over 50% longer on Colab compared to my desktop. I'm running a GTX 1070ti on my desktop that takes a little less than a minute to render a frame, compared to over a minute and a half on Colab (CUDA, GPU). Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong - followed all four of your tuts - which I totally appreciate. My Colab GPU is the Tesla K80. I believe I ran the libtcmalloc update successfully.
life saver!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hello, nice tutorial. But what code can I implement for display when rendering with eevee?
I seem to have used up all my gpu quota. cheers
Hello, what can I do if it says:
"System is out of GPU and shared host memory
Invalid context in cuCtxPopCurrent(NULL) (intern/cycles/device/cuda/util.cpp:31)
Invalid value in cuCtxPushCurrent(device->cuContext) (intern/cycles/device/cuda/util.cpp:26)
System is out of GPU and shared host memory"
si tengo add-ons activados tambien se activan en el google colab? es que en el renderizado no se visualiza correctamente el terreno y creo que es por el add-on de "Node-Wrangler"
Everything was working fine till today now it shows failure when I execute last command shows device does not support queues what to do
Hey. When my render gets to the sample part it stops at the first sample then has a line of code that just says ^C. Is there some thing I did wrong? It rendered fine on my computer even tho it took way longer
If I have add-ons activated, are they also activated in the google colab? is that the terrain is not displayed correctly in the rendering and I think it is due to the "Node-Wrangler" add-on
Hello, I'm getting this error running the sudo, Error: No device available to denoise on. Not sure about this but I've set Optix for the denoising. Thank you.
Hi , i got little bit different problem.my system not having any GPU . The frame is rendered .but , the final line show "unable to open screen" . And it not shows any saved file path or time in screen. Even I checked the file output "-o". But i didn't get any rendered image
i use luxcore render for archviz, is there anyway to install that zip file of luxcore in blender to render with luxcore.
It renders extremely slow in colab in my case. Do you know why? It takes 32 seconds to take a single sample while my laptop takes 2 minutes to render 128 samples
amazing work!
but for some reason i cant render my animation. whenever i try to render more than 1 frames. it only render 1 frame
hey man, I got a problem with rendering, so I used the file output to render multilayer EXR file but colab is not rendering that but instead just render a single picture without any denosing or anything, any workaround for that error?
hello! Do you have the folder i need to upload on drive for the notebook commands to be run
Question how about buying Google Colab Pro and get more Advanced GPU ? And how can i manage gpu and performances ?
getting Error: Found no Cycles device of the specified type why???
Hello Micro Singularity, I been using google colab but during these past weeks the rendering is much slower. it doesn't even use the gpu in goggle even iI enabled them both in the notebook setting or even in my blend files. I check the manage resources in notebook, yet it doesn't even use the gpu. I try to stop rendering in the cloud because maybe I hit the limit but after a month, it is still the same. When it is my first time rendering a scene it only took 2 minutes but now it took a minimum of 20 minutes to render the same file. I hope you'll help me with this problem.
ive got a an Alembic file of a charater that i imported into blender and its working fine in blender but when i render it in colab all the animations dont work any ideas how to solve it ?
Can you tell me how to render full animation with this method. Actually I am getting error on that
After it saves the mp4 file in my drive I've tried opening it and it's having an error what should I do ?
Hi! Thanks a lot for this solution :) But i'm trying to render a project, and google colab return "device does not support queues" anyone have a solution ? or can explain to me the problem ? ahah
1 question
why is my volumetric black
do colab suppor volumetric or not?
what bout addons? What if I have something like Botaniq installed. Could I render an animation using Collab?
This was excellent. What if I wanted to render a video? Where would I find the correct command line arguments to render say, 1-500 frames in mp4 format? Any help would be great thanks.
I’ve got a whole series of this here czcams.com/play/PLV0Zsi5ZYUasqIKTYo7et4iJuaSIArSy5.html
I can't render with OPTIX but CUDA is run without any errors
not working (-- --cycles-device OPTIX)
but without error work (-- --cycles-device OPTIX)
why this happened ?
( Transport endpoint is not connected )what is that how to solve
it sir
sir i tried rendering for hair particle system but it didn't showed up in the render can you help me?
it only work once.
The first time I use it, worked but when you use it the second time there are many errors and its says render finish but when you open the image there is nothing there. My main problem is it says file not exist in projectile but when you open projectile the file blend is in there and I write the file correctly. I dunno what to do. If you how to fix this issue please help me.
Make video about eevee if you find solution. Nice video !!!
When I render my project with it. It does rendered but the objects wasn't on places
nice content my brother,
hi, can u make tutorial with google colab pro ?, I think, it can be great for power user and very cheap for monthly
can you please help?? I am to the last step and I am getting this error
/bin/bash: ./content/drive/MyDrive/BLENDER3.4/blender: No such file or directory
Hi buddy I am not having a gpu in my system so it renders slower than my PC
Is there any way I can render it with gpu on colab
Thanks a lot! I rendered my file but the textures were missing , objects were all pink and a bit transparent . Can you help me out ?
In your blender file you need to go file, external data, pack all in blender file and then save. Then upload the blender file to colab and render
When I go to the last part of the script related to rendering I see an error: bin/bash: ./drive/MyDrive/blender3/blender: Permission denied. Can anyone help me?
i used transportation add on vehicles and Botaniq add on for trees in my project ..now i tried this method to render with Google colab .....how to render using colab please help me??
Hi sir , please , can you explain why I get a transparent image when it renders on colab? I did anything u did in this video , but I got a transparent image saved 🥺😢 please someone help me...
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btw thanks for this awesome tutorial 🍃💚
Can I render OpenEXR multi layer format using colab?
How to run those files you provided inside google collab, I mean how to import that code, I mean the code is not executable, in google drive Collab file shows the thumbnail "CO" but it not showing rather it shows the untitled thumbnail.
i was trying to render animation but it is saying "Error: File written by newer Blender binary (300.43), expect loss of data!"
Thanks a lot! It works a lot faster than before!
One thing, I rendered a 2.79 project with this and it worked well...just while it was rendering, it took 4-5 mins. time for loading render kernels. Can you help me out in explaining this?
That’s normal the first time you run blender. Unfortunately, I suspect it will happen each time you run colab so you will only want to run big renders on colab to make that 4-5 minutes worth it. It will only happen once while colab is running as well
@@MicroSingularity Thanks!
hi, can you help m fix this: 489 device.cpp:391] Device does not support queues.
I tried rendering in blender 3.0 but it's not working for me, am I doing something wrong or it won't work with 3.0, please help
hei can u try to render by Kaggle pls, Colab's GPU limitation is really annoying for me
Thank you for your content but what about the animation with cycle x we want to use?
If you go to my GitHub page, you can find the code to render animations as well
Google Colab isn't rendering PARTICLE SYSTEM/GEOMETRY NODES project file. 😭
Any solution?
I render the image but it shows " append frame 1 " but not saved on the drive .
can anybody help me!
how to bake fire and smoke in colab , i bake it but in my computer open it all empty ,no fire or smoke
Hey bro Im getting error while unzipping... It shows the error.
xz: (stdin): File format not recognised
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exit now
F0731 17:00:36.340284 364 device.cpp:323] Device does not support queues.
I am getting this error when I run the command for rendering a single frame. Can someone please tell me what's wrong ??
Thank you so muchh, now i can make my own render farm at home using 3 google colab account with my pc itself 😂. it is really helpful thank you!! GBU!
No worries 😀
Hi Sir, followed your tutorial and its working great. I have a question, I trying to get into linear workflows so I run an env variable before blender starts that sets up ICIO color transforms.
It looks like this:
How can i get this env variable to run on the colab and blender to pick iot up? thankyou
So far ive just tried a code cell with: OCIO = "/content/drive/MyDrive/RENDER/myOcioSettings/config.ocio"
But doesnt seem to be working. thanks
I think i figured it out:
os.environ["OCIO"] = "/content/drive/MyDrive/RENDER/myOcioSettings/config.ocio"
keep up the good work. leave this here incase it helps anyone else
Hello sir. Thank you so much for your method. I can render the frame on it. It really works but there is a major problem. When I see the rendered image some of the materials turn purples. the world also doesn't reflect in the render. is there something that I missed? it would be really helpful.
You need to package your textures into the blender file. Go file ->external data->automatically pack data. Save and then re-upload to google drive
@@MicroSingularity ok ill try that and let you know
hey I have a background image. how can I upload it.
I'm a github user. Is it possible for you to show us how to clone Github, render a Github file and push to Github?
Hey, its been like 2/3 weeks, maybe even a month and all my gmail accounts say "you are using GPU, but not utilising standard runtime' or something along those lines, basically telling me that i cant use gpu (possible cuz its ran out) i dont know why it hasnt reset after a week, do you have any idea why?
Not sure sorry. That hasn’t happened to me before
if you surpasse the 12 hour colab time limit does it save out image of what it had rendered so far.
Only if you save each frame to separate images. Don’t save as an MP4
Another question, after rendering the animation, where will the output go???
That’s what the “-o” command is for in the last line, whatever goes after -o like “/drive/ is where the render goes. At the end of the render, it’s says where the file was saved. You can press the folder icon on the left side and go to that directory and drop and drag to google drive
why can't my render result open? even though I already downloaded it.. why is that??
Great Video thant you, my question is : I have downloaded Blender and unzip it and copied to my drive, how can i render a scene next time without doing the same steps download & unzip each time?
I’ve got a more detailed step by step tutorial on my website.
bruh plzzz make a tutorial of rendering in cinema 4d in google colab
Man even though I specified the correct path for the file I want to get rendered & using that !chmod code snippet....it's showing me an error "No such file or directory found"
Please help ,PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have that too but I cant find an answer
Does the mac version of blender support cycles X rendering? M1 chips support this?
yes
Thank you for the tutorial!
i have this issue that the code perfectly renders and when the render finishes it gives the error "Unable to open a display" any ideas?
Are you using Eevee?
You probably removed the -b (background) even though he said it isn't necessary mine worked when I kept -b
Mine starts loading in the materials just fine, but suddenly just stops and writes:
^C
Does not reach the stage where it renders, what to do?
Use blender 3.4.1
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! :-) A question: how could one add "Blender add-ons" in Google Colab?
Hi, how would you include purchased Blender add-ons in Google Colab?
You can download blender on a linux machine, include the addons and then upload blender to your gdrive. Then, go on like described in the video.
@@aendnouseforalastname8318 Does it have to be linux? I am running on a win10 OS and all my programs and software is on it as well.
@@HeLIEl Yes, because Colab runs on Linux machines, so your windows version wont run. You can try installing a Linux version on Colab and then upload your addons into the correct folders in Colab - not sure if it will work though