We updated to 2023.2 to take advantage of the Lumen system (an excellent upgrade in the quality of our work - no going back now…), and I notice that Panoramas now take an exponentially longer amount of time to process than when we were using 2023.1.
I did an experiment with an older 2023.1 project, (just 4 panorama scenes, 4K resolution, no “Max Lighting”, no Path Tracing), and it took about 10 minutes to fully render them all and upload to the cloud.
When I opened/converted the same project to 2023.2.1, and processed the same 4 panorama scenes (same workstation, no Lumen rendering, mind you), the same process took 87 minutes!!
Were there new settings introduced in 2023.2 that increase the rendering time? I notice the “Max Lighting” checkbox is no longer an option for panoramas on the Export screen - is it possible that this setting defaults to “on”, without the option to disable? Might just be a bug that needs reporting…
An 8x increase in processing time is a tough pill to swallow, especially when we’ve staked our product on including excellent Twinmotion panorama tours. Worse still is that our newer 2023.2 TM files appear not to have down-save function, so I can’t just hop into the old version to save rendering time…
Anyone else feeling the panorama pain yet?