Hi, hope you're well. Turbo Tools has been updated to version 4.1.4. If you've purchased a copy, lifetime updates are included so you can download it straight away from your library (link on your receipt).

If you haven't yet seen Turbo Tools in action, learn how it can speed up Cycles rendering and compositing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEBkCnxu6RY&list=PLj47Aeq9jcpT7zUbGy81wzb4nImxy4fA4

Included in this update:

Added support for Blender 4.3 Alpha. Without this update Blender 4.3 will crash when you try and render with Turbo Tools.
Disabling the animation option in the compositor's turbo panel (not the one in the render panel) should ensure only the most recently rendered cache EXR is kept on disk. This is useful for saving disk space when rendering still images, or when you don't intend to use the turbo tools compositing features such as publishing/temporal stabilisation after rendering. Previously this could fail under some circumstances. You still need to ensure your folders aren't set to read only of course.
When publishing with multiple composite nodes in the compositor, turbo requires the user to select the composite node they want to publish. Previously this could cause an error.
General performance and code improvements.

USEFUL NOTICE - Even without Turbo Tools installed recent Nvidia drivers have been leading to random crashes during rendering in some versions of Blender. If you're experiencing this, I've found that updating to Nvidia Studio Driver version 555.99 has completely resolved the issue. Also Blender 4.3 Alpha doesn't seem to crash even with earlier Nvidia driver versions. If every you get a crash during rendering, please be aware this cannot be cause by Turbo Tools, because it does all of it's work before and after rendering (not during).

IMPORTANT - Before installing this update, disable and remove the old addon, restart Blender, and then install this updated version. If you're using newer versions of Blender that have replaced addons with extensions, then go to the extensions tab in preferences, click the arrow in the top right, and choose install from disk. This will install Turbo Tools as a legacy addon. I will convert the addon to an extension once the Blender developers have finished tweaking how it works.

Cheers
Michael
3d-illusions.co.uk

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