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A SSS Spider
A SSS Spider
A great spider by Dakiru, showing some nice sub surface scattering (a technique we support for rubbery / waxy materials).
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Lovely camox renders
Lovely camox renders
Camox, from Berlin - has posted a selection of great Indigo renders, some of which only took 30 minutes to resolve, although he doesn't give times for this one - I think it's fantastic:
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Indigo Renderer Opensource Projects
Indigo Renderer Opensource Projects
We're working on opensourcing the non-core parts of our business - we'll do a proper announcement later when we have more done - but for now - you can access the newly relicenced Indigo Scene Format Technical Reference at github.com:
http://indigorenderer.github.com/
The source code to this page is available at:
http://github.com/indigorenderer/indigorenderer.github.com
Feel free to clone the repository, so you can host it locally, fix typos, incorporate it into your own work, or send us pull requests.
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Educational pricing
Educational pricing
Our educational pricing is no longer hidden away behind our sales@indigorenderer email - you can now access it directly at:
http://store.glaretechnologies.com/educational/
The price is 150€ for a student or 195€ for a tutor. We have sold over 50 educational licences and have decided to make it more publically accessible. :)
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Indigo Sale
Indigo Sale
To celebrate the upcoming release of Indigo GPU acceleration we’re offering Indigo licences at a 25% discount. This offer is valid until the 7th of June.
Go to the store to purchase a licence at these prices. These licences are 2.x licences and will include access to the new GPU version of Indigo.
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Some notes from our developers
Some notes from our developers
I came in this morning and found these notes on the desk of Thomas, our GPU developer. We had to blur out a few trade secrets, but I thought you might like to get an insight into how our developers are spending their days.
Higher numbers are better. :)
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Over 100 new materials
Over 100 new materials
Since the material competition began two months ago we've had over 100 new materials added. We've updated the color preview of the materials, so you can now browse all 350+ materials by color.
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Truespace for Indigo updates
Truespace for Indigo updates
The Truespace for Indigo exporter has recieved some updates courtesy of Clintonman. The changelist for the April 2010 release:
* new material support for Diffuse Transmitter, Oren-Nayar, Specular and Glossy Transparent
* emissive light materials
* light layers
* ies profile support
* scene packaging system
* render region support
* phong nkdata added to d3d material
* foreground alpha render
* xml scene tags up to date
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Website fixes
Website fixes
I'm back from holiday and have been pushing out some website fixes that've been in the pipeline for a while.
This material page for Sparlin has been fixed up (it looked slightly wonky before with some text covering up other bits of text). Be sure to hit ctrl-f5 to refresh and make sure you are seeing the latest version of the site.
