Indigo Renderer 2.4.4 Beta

[CTZn]

I'm looking forward to the version with GPU support.

If you specify <gpu>true</gpu> in the renderer_settings XML it will enable GPU acceleration. Note that this forces bidir and hybrid to false.

It's one line of code away Camox, once set gpu will be used with the Path tracing mode. See the "Mode Configuration" frame in the Indigo Render Settings panel.

That will only work with the GPU beta. If you have applied for it (by emailing contact@indigorenderer.com) you'll have an email with the download link and some more information. It was released a day ago or so. (if you havent got an email yet, please pm me or send another email to contact@ :)

Ah, am I naive ... I was fooled because path tracing was so fast ...

Sorry for the confusion Camox !! How do I send an email !?

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[Camox]

For a moment I was confused. Then it works only with the GPU Beta.
That's no problem CTZn. You wanted to help me. Thanks for that.

[fused]

Added the mac build, see first post.

[juan_irender]

Thanks, Fused.
Downloaded and installed. The new network rendering schema works like a charm, I have a PC and a Mac, both running Indigo 2.4.4 and with the Indigo Network Manager, running on the PC, everything works OK.
Only a small thing: in the 2.4.4 Mac build, the info text line in the bottom of the Indigo window shows stripped (see the pic).

Thanks!

[hcpiter]

Why in front/home page is no information about new version of Indigo ? ;)

[Godzilla]

Why in front/home page is no information about new version of Indigo ? ;)

It's a beta version.. It will most likely be announced when a stable version is released. =)

[Stinkie]

Dang, pt's become really fast! Great work!

[hcpiter]

Why in front/home page is no information about new version of Indigo ? ;)

It's a beta version.. It will most likely be announced when a stable version is released. =)

oh yes, yes you right m8 :) thanks :)

[everwind]

Hello, I just wanted to say that I rellay prefer the zoom like that and with 2:1, 3:1 etc. :-p

[CoolColJ]

awwww , no longer getting over 800k samples with basic MLT in some scene I'm testing now
It's cut down by almost half :(

Same for basic path tracing, I was getting well into the mid 1.5 million area, now it's under 1 million ;/

also EV seems to be way lower now

[lycium]

Two possible issues here: the one is the bug in the new kD/BVH building code, and the other is the increased colour precision that's getting rid of your multicolour splotches

I'm going to try to push out a few bugfixes for the issues mentioned in this thread (thanks for the reports everyone!) today, as I'll be taking this weekend off

[CoolColJ]

I certainly notice the difference in sampling now, and caustics seem to resolve better in the water scenes I tried out. MLT and Path tracining no longer give me really high samples rates though! Basic MLT and Bidirectional MLT is almost about the same samples/sec wise, and Bidirectional PT is higher than Path tracing now in some scenes!
Something fishy about that :?

[fused]

Updated the first post with a mac build that fixes the licnecing and networking issues.

[zeitmeister]

Oh, just downloading... great!
Is this the latest official beta?

[fused]

Oh, just downloading... great!
Is this the latest official beta?

Yes.

Also this mac build has LLVM for both 32 and 64 bit, for extra fast shaders