Cliff Lab by David Roberson

Wow! This got an Editor's Pick on submission! That really makes my day!

Thanks, Filter Forge!

My apologies for the late response. It's been a while since I visited the forum. I loaded Cliff Lab a few minutes ago and am waiting to see if it renders for me, and how long it takes. I really don't remember it being this slow.

...okay, it is rendering now. It finished while I looked up my system specs:

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System Information ------------------ Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19044) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406) ROG Strix G713QM_G713QM AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics (16 CPUs), ~3.3GHz Memory: 16384MB RAM Available OS Memory: 15792MB RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 12 Display Devices --------------- AMD Radeon™ Graphics Display Memory: 8392 MB Dedicated Memory: 496 MB Shared Memory: 7896 MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU Display Memory: 13919 MB Dedicated Memory: 6023 MB Shared Memory: 7896 MB

It might make a difference with this filter. Have you continued to have problems getting it to render? I'll look at the graph and see if there's anything I can do to optimize it, or at least add a draft or preview mode.

Edit: After examining the filter, I don't think I can improve the performance without ruining it. It relies on bitmap-based components like Smudge and High Pass to create the rock. I might be able to bypass one, but not all, and each one adds to the render time so it doesn't help to bypass that one by itself. I'm truly sorry if this means you will be unable to use this filter on your current system.

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SpaceRay wrote: Please, can you be so kind to tell how much time does it take for you to render at for example 1024 x 1024 ? It is shown on the top left "Rendering Complete: elapsed time ..." Thanks

Since it looks like you were asking me rather than patrizza, I ran through a render at 1024x1024 and it took 16 minutes and 7 seconds. Turns out I'm set up to render on all cores, BTW. Never knew to check on that before. Thanks for pointing out where that option was!

As I said before, I really thought Cliff Lab worked faster, although I usually only use it when I'm working on it in the editor, so most of the rendering times I remember are just for the component I was editing. By comparison, Cliff Lab II is proving even slower. Hopefully it's not too slow to submit to the Library!