Well this is big news that we've had to sit on for several weeks now. Indigo 2.2 is now available for beta by Windows users. We'll have the other builds out soon. This is a big release! Nick has fixed and improved over a dozen aspects of Indigo. Some of the improvements in this version: Twice as fas

This thread by Godzilla shows the effect of enabling and disabling different channels of the sun + sky lighting model that comes built into Indigo. The first image is with the full sun + sky lighting model: The second image is with the sun disabled, but sky lighting (atmospheric dispersion) enabled

A stylized ethernet adapter by jambert. Nice use of refraction in the semi-transparent plastic.

A nice couch by ctzn:

We now have a materials database leaderboard so you can see who are the most prolific and successful material creators. There is still a bug which prevents recent users from uploading or commenting on materials - that'll be fixed within the next week.

I've made some changes to the material database. You can now view your favourite materials - here are mine. We also show the date next to comments, and have fixed downloading .pigm and .igm files - before they weren't saving with the correct extension - that is now corrected.

Schosch has uploaded this great render that uses lego bricks from the LDraw standard library.

The licences are selling particularly well since the Indigo 2.0 stable announcement. If you are keen to get one of the 40 remaining lifetime licences, you should purchase within the next two weeks.

We've just put together another survey using the cool tools from our friends at SurveyGizmo, if you want to help direct the future development of Indigo - you should take our survey here:       » Indigo August Survey

Indigo is a CPU-intensive renderer and it is a case of the more memory and the more (CPU) cores you can throw at the scene, the faster you will get your results. A quick look at our licencing system shows the top 4 cpus that commercial users of Indigo work with: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Intel(R)