Cindigo 2.0.X progress

[fused]

ROFL! A nice scene, with 6 to 7 omnis as fill-lights, HDRI and sunsky...

so you dont like the it?

[pixie]

ROFL! A nice scene, with 6 to 7 omnis as fill-lights, HDRI and sunsky...

so you dont like the it?

What he doesn't have to like?

[fused]

What he doesn't have to like?

It just sounded like he does not like the light conversion stuff

[pixie]

What he doesn't have to like?

It just sounded like he does not like the light conversion stuff

I think he's praising the light system

[zeitmeister]

Sort of!

Honestly:
the light conversion does make very much sense, having in mind to see something in C4D what comes close to the idea of the expected result in Indigo.
Example: when I place just planes with an emitter material in my C4D-scene, I see nothing... in the C4D editor window.
If I could place area lights instead, which are being converted automatically to emittive planes when being exported to Indigo, I get a much better idea of what is happening in my scene in the C4D editor window.

So please please implement it!
It will put Indigo and C4D visually much closer together.

[fused]

Sort of!

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So please please implement it!
It will put Indigo and C4D visually much closer together.

did it, nearly done with it.
tonight i will spend some time on the custom ies feature Zom-B suggested. its gonna be awesome

[pixie]

Sort of!

...

So please please implement it!
It will put Indigo and C4D visually much closer together.

did it, nearly done with it.
tonight i will spend some time on the custom ies feature Zom-B suggested. its gonna be awesome

Don't forget my suggestions either

[carsten_fokuspunkt]

it sounds very promising fused!!!

hope, you got it tonight

looks like my license of indigo will be useful in future.

[fused]

Don't forget my suggestions either

Of course not

here are some pictures with random c4d light tests, you will be able to contol them a bit more with a light tag, but this is not implemented yet (the very same light tag that was used for the meshlights back then).

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the spotlights are using a default.igs for now, havent started coding the IES stuff.

[zeitmeister]

Oh....
nicenicenice!

One question: do you always attach a light tag or a light normalisation tag to emitting meshes?
I never understood the difference completetly...

[fused]

Oh....
nicenicenice!

One question: do you always attach a light tag or a light normalisation tag to emitting meshes?
I never understood the difference completetly...

the light normalization tag is only for emitting materials(you need to attatch it to an object and then set the material in the the tag to a material that should be scaled on the mesh), but its obsolte. i think i transfered the settings to the material helper, or not?

but wait, ur on a mac right? i think that might have been in RC4...

[pixie]

Oh....
nicenicenice!

One question: do you always attach a light tag or a light normalisation tag to emitting meshes?
I never understood the difference completetly...

the light normalization tag is only for emitting materials(you need to attatch it to an object and then set the material in the the tag to a material that should be scaled on the mesh), but its obsolte. i think i transfered the settings to the material helper, or not?

but wait, ur on a mac right? i think that might have been in RC4...

Well... you could have the same light material applied in different objects and yet having each one a different strengh.

Well I can name yet again my suggestions:
- automatic setting of scale acccording to the cinema own settings
- chosing the scale where user wants to work (wether mm, cm, dm, m,...) according to the unit
- aknowledgment of the sun object/Sky(with background) automatically
- Global a) b) c) for each and every texture Albedo
- Global/Local a) b) c) applied also to the RGB colors
- removing the height/width from camera tag or create a different tag...

[fused]

Well... you could have the same light material applied in different objects and yet having each one a different strengh.

Yes, that is why i made the normalization tag in the first place, but it really is so very impractical that i decided making a new material everytime you want a different strenght should be better.

it also takes away some complexity. all settings in 1 object right where you need it.

[pixie]

Well... you could have the same light material applied in different objects and yet having each one a different strengh.

Yes, that is why i made the normalization tag in the first place, but it really is so very impractical that i decided making a new material everytime you want a different strenght should be better.

it also takes away some complexity. all settings in 1 object right where you need it.

I like the normalization tag, it makes me feel important! Anyhow, if light tags are to return to the lights it will be the same I guess

[fused]

I like the normalization tag, it makes me feel important! Anyhow, if light tags are to return to the lights it will be the same I guess

Yes but note that in future versions you cannot use light tags on meshes, because mehlights are not supported by indigo anymore.