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Animation length cheat code list
By 𝓟𝓮𝓷𝓻𝓸𝓵𝔃
Imagine making a movie-length animation in SFM.
painful right?
Well, it is not that hard to make it, as I made a 7-minute short animation for my YouTube channel.
and it is possible with the last 3 minute length becoming a painful 15 fps progress.
It's because SFM is trapped in a little 3GB of memory and also forces you to do your projects.
without moving outside of that value while working on it.

In this guide, I have covered an analysis of my animations.
including render times for them!
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Analysis of animations i made 
Average 
Intermediate 
Movie level 
Remember that! 
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Analysis of animations i made
As I had enough pain with SFM, I can clearly describe these below.
Average
Average
Animations last around 1–5 minutes. Maximum performance sfm gives you on length: 2–12 hours of render with 256x, 32x, or 64x samples
Intermediate
Intermediate
Animations around 5–15 minutes require good optimisation by cutting the project file into two separate files (.dmx). : 12-46 Hours render with 256x, 32x, or 64x samples
Movie level
Life risk
Animations around 15–45 minutes require good optimisation by cutting the project file into multiple separate files each containing few of your heavy scenes (.dmx). : 36-120 Hours of Rendering 256x, 32x, or 64x samples
Remember that!
These are the results with an RTX3070 laptop GPU with 8GB of VRAM.
Render time depends on what kind of animation you do, for example.
If you are doing an intermediate-length animation, you may want to use
volumetric lighting, highly detailed models, and much more of anything
It's another task that takes time, and I can't analyse that here.
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MJC9576 29 Jul @ 11:15am 
what do i do if i waited a week for my video to render and then my computer red screened?
Ayakaishi_Ayasy 30 May @ 11:35pm 
Thank you for sharing
unhelpful demoman 24 Mar @ 4:10am 
Thanks, I am actually new to this and this helped me loads!
𝓟𝓮𝓷𝓻𝓸𝓵𝔃  [author] 26 Feb @ 3:38am 
mine is 7 minutes and was also included as a reference in this analysis.
Your render settings are very high so for 2-3 minutes animation taking 20-30 hours of render is normal.
WigWoo1 25 Feb @ 1:41pm 
I think my longest animation was about 8 minutes and took 200+ hours to render and like 7 days straight lol
WigWoo1 25 Feb @ 1:40pm 
Your render times seem very good. I have a 1080 ti and I can spend 20-30 hours rendering a single 2-3 minute animation. Granted I render everything 4k 60fps with 256 DOF