Comments on: Indigo 0.6 Final Released

By: Terence

Terence — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:40:57 +0000

I just downloaded it and tried it out on a simple model I made. With just a few trials and errors (very simply overcome) I've gotten an excellent render (I'll post it later if you like). Granted, it is just a simple object, but I must say I am impressed. I've never been big on using renderers other than blender internal or Yafray, but this was pretty much painless. If you have the time to wait for the renders, this can't be beat.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:50:46 +0000

looks very promissor for architectural visualisations, i will try it soon.

http://www.arquiteturadigital.com

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:46:19 +0000

@ROUBAL
Definitely start posting to the Indigo forums. But I can say that you are using an old exporter. For the latest, go here: http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Indigo_exporter . You should also use the indigo documentation on using it with Blender.

By: ROUBAL

ROUBAL — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:19:00 +0000

Well, Indigo seems very interesting. The example that I have seen are amazing, but I can't achieve to render anything of my work.

I think that this is rather to be posted somewhere in an Indigo forum (I have not yet searched), but until now, I have only been able to check the xml files provided with indigo 0.5 and 0.6…

Each time I lauch a rendering from one of my own Blender files (using the 0.5 exporter script provided in Blender V.242a), I get soon this sad message :

Fatal Error :
SceneLoader Except : No "Spectrum" element Found in background element.

What does it mean ? Please can you tell me what is a Spectrum element ? it is a complete mystery for me. Something to do with lighting ?

Philippe.

By: Vidrazor

Vidrazor — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:59:05 +0000

I gueuss using arrow brackets for quotes really screws up this web server, as this is the second time one of my post has been cut short after such a quote.

Anyway, to continue from my quote above, before there was 3D Studio Max, there was just plain 'ol 3D Studio. That's where the .3ds file extension comes from. The .max format simply succeeded it, and is based on it.

By: Vidrazor

Vidrazor — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:54:59 +0000

>>One correction: .3ds is not 3D Studio Max format (it has it’s own). Max can export to .3ds and so can Blender.

By: MorMor

MorMor — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:12:24 +0000

They way it solves ray termination problems in glass objects just is like…an erotic experience for me… and i know i have no life

By: konrad8ha

konrad8ha — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:05:36 +0000

Indigo really does some magically beautyful renders. Too bad it isn't GPL'd, though.

By: ZanQdo

ZanQdo — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:10:06 +0000

madman, actually indigo has now native threading support, its a comand line option new in this version

By: Eugene (etr9j)

Eugene (etr9j) — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:00:43 +0000

@roofoo
No SSS yet… check out this thread with some good dicussion on the request for it in Indigo: http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/forum/viewtopic.php?t=720&highlight=sss

@madman
SMPs can be used: http://www.indigorenderer.com/blender_tut/#10

@Deathblood
Which version of the exporter are you using from http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Indigo_exporter ? If you are having a problem with it and 0.6 final, you should search/post to the Indigo forums. I've seen some issues resolved there invloving the exporter.