Cycles - Light Tree is really slow to preview textures on high res models #105550

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opened 2023-03-07 21:05:26 +01:00 by Nahuel Belich · 6 comments

Nahuel Belich commented

2023-03-07 21:05:26 +01:00

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Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Graphics card:NVIDIA Corporation GP104[GeForce GTX 1070]drv.nvidia 515_proprietary

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Broken: 48944e7a8e 3.6 alpha
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Short description of error
Light tree makes previewing textures really slow process if the object has a dense mesh.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

Open the attached file.
Start render preview in the viewport.
Use shift+Ctrl+click in the different nodes to preview them (even the empty map range) this should be smooth.
Enable Light Tree.
Repeat "step 3".
The bsdf nodes should switch smooth, however the "textures" nodes and the emmision shader are going to take a long time near a minute (depends on the machine of course).

NOTE: Im not sure if this is a bug or if its how the light tree works, didn't see any warning about it, a colleague and I spend a while playing around to find out what was happening, and the solution end up being easy, to preview for working on materials just turn it off.
Since im not sure i choose to report it.

**System Information** Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Graphics card:NVIDIA Corporation GP104[GeForce GTX 1070]drv.nvidia 515_proprietary **Blender Version** Broken: 48944e7a8ea0 3.6 alpha Worked: **Short description of error** Light tree makes previewing textures really slow process if the object has a dense mesh. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** 1. Open the attached file. 2. Start render preview in the viewport. 3. Use shift+Ctrl+click in the different nodes to preview them (even the empty map range) this should be smooth. 4. Enable Light Tree. 5. Repeat "step 3". The bsdf nodes should switch smooth, however the "textures" nodes and the emmision shader are going to take a long time near a minute (depends on the machine of course). NOTE: Im not sure if this is a bug or if its how the light tree works, didn't see any warning about it, a colleague and I spend a while playing around to find out what was happening, and the solution end up being easy, to preview for working on materials just turn it off. Since im not sure i choose to report it.

Cycles_Textures_bug.blend

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Jesse Yurkovich commented

2023-03-07 22:00:46 +01:00

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This is related to not building the Light Tree in parallel which is an open todo from #77889.

Every triangle that is emissive needs to be used in building the light tree. This is why an Emission shader in the example is slow. As well as with previewing non-BSDFs; those use emission behind the scenes for viewing etc.

A quick profile from the provided .blend shows this is all light tree build related (attached).

I'm unsure if I should mark this as a duplicate right away though.

This is related to not building the Light Tree in parallel which is an open todo from #77889. Every triangle that is emissive needs to be used in building the light tree. This is why an Emission shader in the example is slow. As well as with previewing non-BSDFs; those use emission behind the scenes for viewing etc. A quick profile from the provided .blend shows this is all light tree build related (attached). I'm unsure if I should mark this as a duplicate right away though.

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Nahuel Belich commented

2023-03-08 05:49:57 +01:00

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i see, makes sense, thanks for the info.
still would be nice if there was a warning or a note in the release notes or in the hint about using high res models with light tree for setting up materials.

i see, makes sense, thanks for the info. still would be nice if there was a warning or a note in the release notes or in the hint about using high res models with light tree for setting up materials.

Pratik Borhade commented

2023-03-15 11:17:10 +01:00

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This is related to not building the Light Tree in parallel which is an open todo from #77889.
I'm unsure if I should mark this as a duplicate right away though.

Light Tree is really slow to preview textures

I think this is expected as said in the manual because more processing is happening per sample

> This is related to not building the Light Tree in parallel which is an open todo from #77889. I'm unsure if I should mark this as a duplicate right away though. cc @weizhen > Light Tree is really slow to preview textures I think this is expected as said in the [manual](https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/3.6/render/cycles/render_settings/sampling.html#bpy-types-cyclesrendersettings-use-light-tree:~:text=at%20the%20cost%20of%20a%20somewhat%20longer%20render%20time%20per%20sample.) because more processing is happening per sample

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Weizhen Huang commented

2023-03-15 12:02:58 +01:00

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Hey! This is not a problem of "more processing time per sample", it's the pre-processing (building the light tree) that takes too long because there are too many emissive triangles, should have mentioned that in the manual.
We do have plan in the very near future to build the light tree in parallel, actually just discussed this yesterday, I hope things will get better then. For now, if you still want to use light tree in the scene, you can disable Emission Sampling for problematic emissive objects, so they are not added to the light tree
We have Emission Sampling in the manual

Hey! This is not a problem of "more processing time per sample", it's the pre-processing (building the light tree) that takes too long because there are too many emissive triangles, should have mentioned that in the manual. We do have plan in the very near future to build the light tree in parallel, actually just discussed this yesterday, I hope things will get better then. For now, if you still want to use light tree in the scene, you can disable Emission Sampling for problematic emissive objects, so they are not added to the light tree ![Screenshot 2023-03-15 at 11.50.26.png](/attachments/57e574b7-3468-416a-ba12-e35b2eb6dcc6) We have Emission Sampling in the [manual](https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/3.6/render/cycles/material_settings.html#surface)

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Nahuel Belich commented

2023-03-15 20:33:30 +01:00

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We have Emission Sampling in the manual

I thought this was to choose if the face normal or the backface where used as emission surface or not, didn't associate this option to "light tree" since it only mention "sampling" something for cycles to use ¿?.

Light Tree is really slow to preview textures

I think this is expected as said in the manual because more processing is happening per sample

As mentioned above the problem in this case is not more time per sampling, since its only for material/texture preview, the problem its the initialization time.

We do have plan in the very near future to build the light tree in parallel, actually just discussed this yesterday, I hope things will get better then

that's great to know, for the moment there is the option to disable sampling (i just learn that thanks for the info) or disable light tree, at least we have options its not that critical of a problem.

> We have Emission Sampling in the [manual](https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/3.6/render/cycles/material_settings.html#surface) I thought this was to choose if the face normal or the backface where used as emission surface or not, didn't associate this option to "light tree" since it only mention "sampling" something for cycles to use ¿?. ![image](/attachments/0070745e-0544-4144-824b-258eea91eafe) >>Light Tree is really slow to preview textures >I think this is expected as said in the manual because more processing is happening per sample As mentioned above the problem in this case is not more time per sampling, since its only for material/texture preview, the problem its the initialization time. >We do have plan in the very near future to build the light tree in parallel, actually just discussed this yesterday, I hope things will get better then that's great to know, for the moment there is the option to disable sampling (i just learn that thanks for the info) or disable light tree, at least we have options its not that critical of a problem.

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Weizhen Huang referenced this issue

2023-03-20 11:50:56 +01:00

Cycles: build Light Tree in parallel #105862

Brecht Van Lommel commented

2023-03-20 15:32:43 +01:00

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The heuristic from 4fba59c also addresses this, with the steps in this bug report it will no longer include the heavy mesh in the light tree now.

I think we can consider this not a bug, and #105862 will help speed this up as well.

The heuristic from 4fba59c also addresses this, with the steps in this bug report it will no longer include the heavy mesh in the light tree now. I think we can consider this not a bug, and #105862 will help speed this up as well.

Brecht Van Lommel closed this issue

2023-03-20 15:32:45 +01:00

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Weizhen Huang referenced this issue from a commit

2023-03-20 18:02:23 +01:00

Cycles: build Light Tree in parallel

Jesse Yurkovich referenced this issue

2023-06-02 22:36:13 +02:00

Emission performance bug (cycles render) #108558

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