How can I get started with Blender Cycles/HIP Rendering?

[bhibb (Bryson Hibbitts)]

Please also check out this user’s input. They got HIP under Blender to work (the rpm from Fedora’s repo) via a slightly different method. I’ve tested it and found it to be more stable than the method I detailed above. The latest comments discuss the alternate (and more stable in my opinion) approach.

Blender, AMD, and OpenCL

Hi! I prefer “standard” packages instead of flatpak or AppImage so I got the latest available blender Version (3.2.1) on the fedora package testing page https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-7fe04fc1a5 I didn’t have any issues so far, but I only worked with it for ~3h yesterday creating some textures in the node editor. I wasn’t using the viewport much, but I was moving around/rotating a bit to get a good view in the “rendered” view checking reflections for example and had no i…