Are you using arch glass for those stained glass windows? Is there a noticeable difference if you turn that on/off?

I prefer the sunshine one. Zom-B made a good suggestion - there are also other HDRIs that might throw slightly less sharp and contrasty shadows into the interior (it slightly interferes with the interior design.)

Change your focal length?

One of these shots are on the front page now!

This question frequently comes up. It is indeed very questionable from a usability point of view having to type a number like 100000000 in order to be able to see anything in your scene, but AFAIK it's the only way to do it.

Wow, these renders are super, especially those with a few patches of sunlight coming in. You've improved a whole lot, and so has Indigo by the looks of it.

Pixie is right. It’s a precision problem with GPU rendering that can be worked around with above mentioned methods.

Fantastic. By the way, did you try the built in denoiser? Maybe that can help to clean up some of that last noise in these clouds.

ErichBoehm wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 10, 2019 10:05 am

Don't get me wrong. I'm very grateful that Indigo still is being offered for free

It is?

Hi Oscar, I went with the iMac configuration with Radeon 580x (midrange) but went with an eGPU for it with a Vega 64. I got the enclosure, just waiting for the GPU to test it. Not sure if Indigo will detect this as a dual GPU setup or if I have to select one. Hope this solution works nicely, thanks...

Would have suggested blasting it in GPU mode, but you probably need a lot of path depth.

I'm not sure you need MLT for a scene like this, as there's no particularly hard caustics to solve due to the fairly flat lighting. Tried BiDir without MLT?

I can only refer to the Benchmark database for indications of what cards perform well on Mac. Me, I'm using an ancient Radeon HD 7970, though if I was rendering more I'd definitely upgrade.

For rendering, I would definitely recommend an eGPU config over those mid-range graphics crammed into the tight form factor of an iMac. I use an eGPU with my Macbook Pro with Indigo and I'm quite happy with it.

Headroom wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2019 8:36 am

The silence in response to the OPs question is really rather disturbing :/

The latest Blendigo thread is here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15118

I agree that it'd be nice to know when a 2.8 build may be out.

@Oscar J I've had the same concern when rendering on my now over 10 year old iMac. While that for obvious reasons never included the GPU it did get hot for long periods of time. But it still works. Granted, its not a notebook! Cool, and yeah - those old iMacs are just so solid. I wasn't so lucky wi...