New features for 4.0:
Performance Update – New faster core for K-Cycles
Ultra Lighting (K-Cycles 2024) – New powerful Light Mixing with new outliner view and filtering.
Light Mixing (K-Cycles 2024) – New with two modes for all the scene lights or lightgroups.
Light Mixing (K-Cycles 2024) – Collection and individual control for visibility, solo, selection, exposure, color and white balance.
Lightgoups Mixing (K-Cycles 2024) – Real-time presets and lightgroup mixing line control.
Light & Shadow Linking – Improve ease of use, accuracy and control.
Previous K-Cycles users can use upgrade code “upgrade2024” (Extra 25% off) discount.
What is K-Cycles?
K-Cycles is a highly optimized custom build of Cycles render engine, ultra lighting, post FX, ultra denoiser, camera settings, multi-camera render, camera override and realtime viewport lighting and effects for Blender. It is fully compatible with Cycles and designed for Nvidia GPUs. Features include:
Ultimate rendering performance for viewport and final renders.
Amazing Ultra Lighting the most powerful and complete lighting features for Cycles.
A set of Cycles performance features and options for improving the Cycles viewport and final rendering. The K-Cycles performance mode for maximizing the rendering time. GPU Boost controls Cycles GPU memory to help improve performance and memory usage. Global Illumination presets allow scene lighting settings for faster rendering or higher lighting quality. Sampling final render presets is the best way to control the render time, noise level and scene image quality. Reduce viewport updates for faster viewport rendering.
The performance chart below compares K-Cycles to the same Cycles build of Blender. Tests done with the default Cycles final render settings of noise threshold of “0.01” and samples of “4096” without denoiser.
Videos on K-Cycles Performance:
K-Cycles Performance Limitations:
K-Cycles will not improve time for scene loading, textures, synchronization, particle generation, BSP, or other pre-rendering calculations.
K-Cycles performance gains will be minimal at low render samples or high noise threshold above 0.05. In this case it is recommended to use “Ultra Denoiser” to improve scene texture and geometry detail, and image quality that requires considerably less render samples compared with the standard denoiser.
K-Cycles performance gains can not be guaranteed due to differences in graphics hardware, system configuration, render setting or specific scene issues.
K-Cycles Physically Based Light and Shadow Linking
Physically based Light linking per objects/collections.
Physically based Shadow linking per objects/collections.
Invert light linked objects/collections.
