I'm painting the rooms in my house and trying to use Indigo to sample paint colours before buying samples. Yes, I realize testing in real is best practice, but I'm really curious about learning this renderer to see how close to real it can get. Does anyone have experience reproducing paint colours b...

IMO those textures (the marble and wood) are horribly fake looking. The clouds I think are maybe a bit better, but compared to a real sky is just very plain/uninterested looking. I definitely can IMAGINE shaders being useful for realistic results but I've yet to be convinced. The most common situati...

I got network rendering working. But when I specify a haltspp the master stops but the slaves keep going. I also get the MySocketExcep errors when stopping/quitting. Lastly, the new tabs along the bottom of the indigo.exe UI are so large I can't see the real-time log info on some machines (none here...

I have rendered a 3200x2400 image but now want to go back and render a small section that didn't resolve as much. So, I've setup the render region, it's about 330x120 in demension.... it does not render any faster then the entire image did! I started the region render from scratch (instead of trying...

As a side note for you exporter developers that haven't done so: this would be an easy automated thing to implement and I imagine very useful too!

place your camera very far away and zoom in! The more you do this, the closer it'll get to an orthographic effect.

yes, I would definitely use this!

yeah good point, I was just thinking you could turn it into a service using "srvany". I've done this with some other apps I've made and it seems to work well.

Here's some instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890

oh by the way, you CAN use pstools to check and start/restart the slave processes! :) What I do is pslist all designated slave computers and serach for the word "indigo" and if it'snot found on a pc use psexec to start it. Of course, I had to mess with permisions to get it to work on all the comptue...

what does this batch file do? when would i use it? if suvakas could add the "-n" option to his batch file generator, that would save the only extra step I currently have to go through.

alex I had similar results with reinhard tonemapping, so i tried linear and it seemed to be fine. of course, also try rendering to igi

Youn: why don't u just save your scene file to a share, and let windows do the copying? I'm unclear by what you mean "let windows do the copying" I initially tried having all files on the network where all computers can get to them, but it seems only one instance of indigo can open them at a time. ...

OK, I got a pretty nice system worked out, seems to work, with just one exception: The bat file that starts the main file neds to have "-n wm" on it. Can this be done from within the exporter?

http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/fo ... 0844#40844

Let me know what you think

OK, I'm really interested in network rendering because I have 30-40 computer here at work and can play with them after everyone leaves (hehehe) so I'm started to get comfortable with the process. Here's what I do.... I'm using windows computers btw, but I'm sure something very similar can happen on ...

The log files will show, for example: Display took 3.92498 s Time elapsed: 26 h, 9 m, 48 s Done 939400000.00000 samples (3757.60000 samples per pixel) 9973.63548 samples / second (100.26434 micro-seconds / sample) Receiving frame from 10.0.0.251: num_samples: 70000.000000 width: 1000 height: 1000 Re...