Indigo Technical Reference

Command Line Parameter Reference

indigo [scenepathname]
Starts Indigo. If scenepathname is present, then it will attempt to load and start rendering that scene file.

-h hostname:port
Sets the hostname and port that a network slave indigo process will try and connect to, e.g.
indigo -n s -h masterhostname:7777

-halt X
Stops the Indigo process after X seconds. By default Indigo does not halt.

-haltspp X
Stops the Indigo process after X samples per pixel have been reached.

-igio pathname
Writes the Indigo Image (IGI) output to pathname instead of the usual generated pathname.

-image_save_period N
Sets the image save period to N seconds.

-n s
Start in network render slave mode.

-n m
Start in network render master mode.

-n wm
Start in network render working master mode. Working master mode is like master mode,
except rendering work is done on the master as well as the slaves.

-o pathname
Writes the render as a PNG to pathname instead of the usual generated pathname.

-p port
Instructs a network render master to listen on a particular port.

-r igi_path
Resume render using Indigo Image (.igi) found at igi_path.

-t numthreads
Runs the Indigo process with numthreads threads.

-v
Print out version information.

-texro out_path
Path to write the tone mapped EXR file to.

-uexro out_path
Path to write the un-tone mapped EXR file to.

-channels out_path
Path to write un-tone mapped channels EXR to.

--ptest
Runs performance test for the given scene.

--dumpmetadata png_path
Dump PNG meta data from file at png_path

--pack scene.igs out.pigs
Pack Indigo scene scene.igs to out.pigs

--unpack scene.pigs out
Unpack Indigo PIGS or PIGM to the directory out

--settings "settings_xml"
Appends the specified settings to the scene settings and overrides if already present

--tonemap scene.igs in.igi out.png
Tonemap in.igi using parameters in scene.igs, to out.png

--thread_priority [belownormal|normal]
Set the thread priority to belownormal or normal. Only has an effect on Windows.

--gpu_info
Displays information about system OpenCL devices

--merge_igi igilist out.igi
Merges the .igi files listed in igilist (one per line) into out.igi

--clear_cache
Deletes contents of cache directory

--hardwareid
Returns hardware ID of computer. (for licensing)