What am I doing wrong? Rendering takes forever I am a beginning art student who is trying out Blender for the first time. I made this file for my class, but rendering seems to takes forever. It feels like it should be a rather simple animation, but when I try to export it into FBX, even my school workstation crashes. What can be done to reduce complexity of this animation so it can be properly rendered and exported?
Here is a screenshot: https://we.tl/t-lHCYyVGUbF
FBX doesn't export simulations unless you are exporting every vert position in every frame and that is absolutely not optimal. I assume you are trying to export this to a game engine because FBX is 3d model format. If you are using a game engine you have two options:
Do the vfx in the game engine instead. Blender's vfx system cannot transfer into game engines.
Render out your animation and use the video in your game engine: and in the properties panel&lt;Scene&lt;Film&lt;Render click the check box next to Transparent background. I think the QT video codec supports transparent video. This method is not optimal.