Indigo News

Fused, the author of our Cinema 4D exporter came up with a piece of magic to render depth maps using Indigo Shader Language. See these great images by ZomB for examples:

Original render:

Depth map:

See this post in the forum for the newest build of Blendigo for os x and windows.

Another great render by Pibuz, an Indigo user from Padua, Italy.

The ingredients of a great render like this:

* Accurate modelling
* Nice materials
* Good lighting
* Depth of field

We will be featuring scenes like this in the Indigo techniques manual that will discuss how to set up scenes to get the best possible renders out of Indigo.

Matsta shared a few nice renders in his thread. We particularly enjoyed this orange geometry:

Suvakas, the developer of our 3DS Max exporter did this render for the Evermotion competition.

Good luck Suvakas. :)

Godzilla posted this lovely render that he built with Blender and Indigo. He also benchmarked the same scene twice, once in Indigo 1.1.18 and once in 2.0.8. 2.0.8 was 40% faster at resolving. We recommend all new users start with 2.0.8 now, and old-school users try out the latest plugins to see if 2.0.8 is suitable for their work.

Ono has just announced a new release of Indigo - 2.0.8.

Some of the improvements of this version:

* Increased maximum resolution for non-commercial users to 0.7MP
* Sky and Sun can now be on different layers, using and , see sun_sky_layer_test.igs
* Changed self-intersection avoidance code.
* Camera response path is loaded correctly from scene to GUI
* Plus/Minus now zoom in/out the rendered image in the GUI. Zero resets zoom level to 1.
* Aspect ratio is computed from render width and height.
* GUI tonemapping settings persist over render stop/start
* Changed watermark to smaller, brighter Indigo logo.
* Updated Indigo exe icon, fixes icon on XP
* Fixed --unpack giving errors if directories present in .pigm.

Head over to the download page to get the newest versions - and if you'd like to support Indigo and our ongoing work - please head over to the Indigo store and buy a licence (or two).

I've just updated the Indigo store, there are about 60 Indigo lifetime licences left.

I just came across this Blendigo tutorial by charliedontsurf. It's a great introduction to using Blender with Indigo if you're new to rendering with Indigo.

Along with the twitter page, we just put up a facebook page for Indigo. There is also a facebook group, feel free to join both if you are on facebook. The more supporters we get, the more traffic to the Indigo site, the more people buy licences and the more great renders we all get to enjoy.