Indigo News
10 Sep 2009

First cut of the techniques manual

We've uploaded the first few pages of the techniques manual. It describes the different material types and has a brief example of Indigo Shader Language. We're bringing someone on from late November to work fulltime on documenting Indigo - so look forward to the Indigo documentation filling out rapi

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9 Sep 2009

Blender Exporter Manual

We've uploaded a new HTML version of the Blender Exporter Manual. All of our documentation will soon be available in HTML and PDF. Comment on the documentation in this thread.

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8 Sep 2009

Blendigo 2.2.1 for Linux

Since Blendigo on Linux users are out in the cold at the moment, I've made a new build for Linux. It now has an installation script. Read more and discuss in this thread.

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8 Sep 2009

Call for plugin developers

Indigo currently has - or has in development, plugins for these packages: * Cinema 4D * Blender 2.4 and 2.5 * 3DS Max * Revit * Maya * XSI * SketchUp This is a call for plugin developers. If you are, or you know, an experienced plugin developer for another modeling package that Indigo doesn't suppor

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7 Sep 2009

Cindigo 2.2 available for beta

Cindigo 2.2 - our advanced exporter for Cinema 4D, now has a beta version available for download. Yves Collé, the Cindigo developer has been working night and day to make Indigo the most powerful renderer for Cinema 4D. The biggest improvements in the new release are: * "Baking" Cinema 4D materia

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7 Sep 2009

A nice bathroom render

I was perusing flickr for indigo renderer images and found this nice bathroom by redbytex.

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3 Sep 2009

Nice interior render by Schosch

I love the Ikea furniture and slanted daylight filling this room by Schosch:

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1 Sep 2009

Whaat is tearing up the material database charts

Our leaderboard of material database contributors has been changing recently, as Whaat (the developer behind SkIndigo, our famously easy to use SketchUp exporter) uploads plenty of new materials. It's going to be a few months until our material database can compete with some of the other raytracers

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1 Sep 2009

Indigo lifetime licences

A few Indigo lifetime licences are still available. If you've seen the development of 2.0, release of 2.2 and the promise of further speedups to come (including GPU acceleration), you'll know that the future of Indigo is promising. You have not a lot of time left to buy an Indigo lifetime licence. I

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23 Aug 2009

SkIndigo tutorial

I've just posted a simple SkIndigo Tutorial for getting you started with SketchUp and Indigo. It is a complement to the great walkthroughs available under SketchUp documentation.

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