blender freezing up

Whenever I go to add the concrete material to the columns, blender completely freezes up on me and I end up having to force quit. Not sure if it has to do with my hardware but I'm using a Macbook Pro (2019):                         


  • Omar Domenech replied
    Solution

    It might be some bug if you're using the latest Blender version. It would be better maybe if you can use the Blender version that is being used in the tutorial and see if it works. Although I remember that material being a bit tough on the hardware. I have a beefy computer and it struggled with that scene. Something about all the noise textures cranked all the way up and the AO, it is a bit computer intensive.

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  • Sam Kramer(S1LB0T) replied

    Thanks for the info. I am using version 3.5.1 so I’ll have to do some research to see if I can tweak the material somehow to be less computationally expensive, but I’ll definitely try using the version used in the tutorial too. 

  • Martin Bergwerf replied
    Solution

    There is also an important optimization in the first Post under this lesson:

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