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Tutorial: Using Indigo with Blender

  Published by Eugene (etr9j) on September 9th, 2006 in Tutorials

balcone4hq.jpgAfter our post about Radiance's latest work, you might be looking at Indigo and wondering how to use it with Blender. Look no further! Radiance has posted an excellent (and extensive) tutorial on using Indigo with Blender.

From the intoduction:

Due to the large amount of blenderheads posting 'how do i get started' posts on the Indigo forums, and the lack of documentation for Indigo (which is being worked on), I thought i'd write this tutorial to get people started with Indigo. I basically rammed this whole tutorial into my keyboard in 4 hours ;-) so don't complain about typo's etc ;-) i'll fix them soon ;-) This tutorial assumes the reader to have a basic understanding of Blender, basic modeling, basic material assignment and UV mapping.

From the index, here is what it covers:

1. Introduction
A. What is Indigo ?
B. What are the differences between Indigo and the Blender Internal render engine and Yafray ?

2. A basic overview of Indigo
A. System Requirements
B. Indigo Directory Structure Overview

2. Installing indigo and the Blender export script
A. Downloading and installing indigo
B. Downloading and installing the Blender / Indigo export script.

3. Indigo Materials overview
A. The Material
B. The Material
C. The Material (dielectric)
D. A practical example (optional)

4. Getting started: A basic scene and render
A. Creating a basic scene
B. Assigning materials
C. Export and render
D. Help and Support

5. Advanced: Lightning in Indigo
A. / Physical Sky
B. / Uniform background environment light
C. / HDRI environment map.
D. / A light emitting mesh object

6. Advanced: Texture / Bump mapping
7. Advanced: Complex IOR / nkdata phong materials
8. Advanced: The export script in detail (contains DOF options)
9. Network rendering / dual core CPU's and SMP

If you are looking at Indigo as a rendering option, then this tutorial is for you. To contact Radiance directly about his tutorial, you can use the BA thread.



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  1. 1 claws Edit Link Sep 9th, 2006 at 9:07 am

    wow really top notch and extensive tutorial - thx for that ! :)

  2. 2 Toudou Edit Link Sep 9th, 2006 at 2:09 pm

    That is excellent.
    I try to do Indigo!

  3. 3 Peter Edit Link Sep 9th, 2006 at 4:06 pm

    Awesome!!! Now I can't wait to get started with Indigo!

  4. 4 yodudles Edit Link Sep 9th, 2006 at 11:36 pm

    LIKE FINALY!!!

  5. 5 broken_sword Edit Link Sep 10th, 2006 at 5:20 am

    Finally, finnaly… Thanks or doing it…

    Regards,
    broken_sword

  6. 6 ShiftingClouds Edit Link Sep 10th, 2006 at 10:57 pm

    Documentation, clear precise.
    It doesn't take an eternity to write when one knows what one is talking about and obviously this man does.

    Thank you greatly Radiance. Although that I am mostly a Yafray user the must be some artistic use for all the hyper-reality of Indigo.

    Jean

  7. 7 Sephiroth Edit Link Sep 11th, 2006 at 2:58 am

    Finally, I was looking for somthing like this, thx Radiance!

  8. 8 Tynach Edit Link Sep 15th, 2006 at 5:59 pm

    What about blurry refractions for transperancy? What about anisotropic shading?

    Ironicaly, these are the only things I can think of… Thanks for the tutorial, I'll try it out soon!

  9. 9 Tynach Edit Link Sep 23rd, 2006 at 9:24 pm

    Just tried it. It's amazing! Though you have to have the world settings saved under the name World, which I didn't at first… It kept coming up with Python Error. Not anymore, though.

  10. 10 boreto Edit Link Oct 27th, 2006 at 3:48 pm

    thank You,
    greet work, continue improving.

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