K-Cycles

by K-Cycles in Addons


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This item has an average rating of 4 from 93 ratings by the community.

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  • cj
    about 17 hours ago

    seen some negative thoughts on this so leaving 5 stars. I was having some bla's with it, but thats alot of me being a novice if anything, with that being said the team got back to me and gave me all the big tips right in my blender holes and helped point me in the right direction. its a cool bit of kit, I'd take it home and introduce it to my parents if I could. top notch. great customer support even if I got shoouted at for asking aboot rendering.

  • Montana Reece
    about 1 month ago

    I have been using K-Cycles since a week after using Blender. It is my go to version. Updates are quick with official releases and nothing beats having effects in the view port.

  • dan
    2 months ago

    This tool is invaluable, it is incredibly easy to set up and use. You can create a project in vanilla Blender and then open it in K-Cycles and all of your addons and startup settings will automatically carry over. As mentioned by others, it is an annual subscription if you want to keep up to date with the latest versions of blender while using it, but it is so worth it. K-Cycles turned a 6 minute per frame 1 week render into a 30 second per frame 7 hour render. It didn't just speed up my render, but the sample and denoising quality also went up drastically relative to vanilla cycles denoising. I am in awe. I had a render issue and i thought it was kcycles, but it was actually a shader user error on my part and the dev promptly ran through my project and found the issue very quickly. I will be returning to buy the next version in 2025 I strongly recommend this tool.

  • CURSOR
    3 months ago

    This add-on will be of great benefit.
    I hope they continue to upgrade it in the future.
    There was one odd spot where the volume and fog stopped working properly.
    It was rendering at first, but one day it turned out differently.
    It's our fault, and I don't know why, but other than that, I wouldn't touch Blender without it.

  • Claudio Saldaña
    5 months ago

    "users can use upgrade code "upgrade2024" (Extra 25% off) discount", I know that at this moment it already has a discount, but does this not apply to previous purchases? I have the 2023 version and that extra discount was not applied as the publication says.

    • Eric Klein

      5 months ago

      It is not a K-Cycles issue Blender Market disables coupon codes for all products during their sales events.

      K-Cycles has it's own sales a few time a year usually with new blender releases in which upgrade coupon will give the customers additional discount. Emails will be send to all customers to take advantage of this special sales.

  • AdamRatai
    5 months ago

    I had k-cycles installed without any plugins just for rendering, and always use it when it is a render time. This (and postprocess) alone is worth money spend.

  • Navid Razavi
    5 months ago

    It is needless to say that you can also achieve greatest results from vanilla Blender, but K-Cycles really accelerated my rendering pipeline on my old Laptop that luckily still has an NVidia GPU. I can easily switch on the Cycles previews in the viewport to get a quick overview of the art direction of my works, and the icing on the cake is all the great Post-FX, light mixing etc.

    All of this could be achieved by purchasing several addons and optimizing your scenes individually, and I know that it is a "bummer" for many people that this is some kind of annual update purchase addon, but it is obvious that the updates are not necessary for your older or recent projects as long as you don't need the newest functions of the recent Blender versions.

    All in all a great addon!

  • Peter13
    8 months ago

    I haven't done an in-depth performance comparison with the regular Blender version, but I primarily use it for its excellent and user-friendly PostFX, especially for animations. The ultra denoiser also works quite well. It's a great addon, thank you.

  • Jesper
    8 months ago

    Great alternative version of blender to speed up renderings. Some cool post fx tools as well.
    Super helpful creator, who is always active on the Discord if anyone encounters problems.

  • Oliver Beck
    9 months ago

    Great, very happy with this as an alternative to default Cycles.

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Published over 3 years ago
Blender Version 4.2, 4.1, 4.0
License GPL
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