A little while ago (1st december last year) I wrote that I had achieved a 20% speedup of bidir (bidirectional path tracing) on a reference test scene, measured relative to our last stable release, 3.6. Since then I've been continuing to optimise bidir and the indigo render core in general. Indigo

Following on from the last blog post about Atmospheric and volume rendering improvements in Indigo, here's a render using procedural clouds and Indigo's atmospheric simulation. This scene (or an improved version) will probably be bundled as one of the example scenes for the next Indigo version. T

Recently the Indigo users Yonosoy and CTZn have been pushing the limits of Indigo in terms of procedural terrains and clouds, all rendered with Indigo's powerful and accurate atmospheric simulation. (See the forum threads here: http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12050&s

I spent a productive weekend optimising bidirectional path tracing in Indigo (the most powerful render mode). It now runs 20% faster! --Nick

Glare Technologies is pleased to announce the release of Indigo 3.6 Stable! After a period of intensive development, in which many powerful new features were introduced and the user experience refined, the final stable release is now available. This release is free for all existing Indigo 3.x custo

We have a new tutorial available: how to model a swimming pool in SketchUp and Indigo. This tutorial shows how to get nice caustics at the bottom of the pool with SketchUp and Indigo. You can read it here.

We have a new Indigo reseller for China and Honk Kong - Mad Macs Technology Distributions Limited. Mad Macs have offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, so will be sure to help you out with your Indigo purchase wherever you are in China and Hong Kong. To contact them, use the details

We have a new tutorial up on how to make a composite image with a foreground alpha render, a shadow pass render, and a background plate. Read it here.

We have updated the vehicles gallery with some beautiful new car renders from Indigo users Oscar Johansson and Arthur Liebnau. These renders use the new shadow pass and integrated alpha channel output support in Indigo for compositing against a background image. You can read a bit more about the sha

We have introduced some exciting new features for the upcoming Indigo 3.6 release, designed to make compositing renders into photographic environments much easier and more realistic. The first addition is a new shadow pass render mode: The second addition is integrated alpha rendering. When the 'f