Hi Guys,

I am trying to render small preview of my simulation with about 16mio particles. When i render a frame in the render view window, i got a render time of about 30 seconds. Now if i go to render the sequence in the mantra node i get render times up to 10 minutes and more for just a single frame.

Why does this happen and how do i fix this?

Thank you!

Timo

Here is a screenshot of what im trying to render

Just a guess.
Did you cache the simulation?

yes, i cached the sim and loaded it with the delayed procedural shader.
I noticed the huge render times comes when i add a light in the scene, without the light i got pretty fast results, but not the look i want.

Maybe change your lights shadows from raytrace to shadow maps?

On Mantra node render engine is PBR?