Indigo Exporter for 0.7t5 - beta release

[kadajawi]

Damn, wanted to suggest Cindigo, but while I was registering the name was suggested already. But I think Cindigo4D is even cooler. Nice name.

And nice work fused, my vote goes for null-objects, I make a lot of use of them, so that would be great

Nice to see how quick you progress

[fused]

hi kadajawi and welcome aboard

yes i use null-objects very often too, im trying to find out how to export child objects of null-objects a for while... but... maybe soon...

[fused]

just a little update!

Fixed camera export.

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INDIGO EXPORTER FOR C4D 0.2.2b

download exporter here (or below)

the file contains "sampleScene.c4d" for everyone who still doesnt know how to setup stuff.

please tell me if you find bugs or have specific requests. i will try to fix/implement as fast as possible.


known bugs/issues 0.2.2b:

* objects grouped with null-objects wont be exported, will fix that sooner or later
* sometimes you have to guess the right fields, didnt find out how to hide them yet
* env maps are not supported yet
* textures are not supported yet

FIXED-list 0.2.2b:

* FIXED: camera "up" and "forwards" get exported now!
* FIXED: some strings

[manitwo]

not necessary, but would be nice:
if theres no helper tag attached, use the color for the indigo-mats directly
from the c4d mats. (like bl's exported did)

edit: as you know pure white diffuse materials will result in longer rendertimes.
A default color of [0.8 0.8 0.8] will avoid atleast one beginner mistake.

edit2: found a bug: if i use numbers as material names i get an error when i try to render that scene.

edit3: another small "bug": the default "width x height" in the
rendersettings tag is "480 x 640" (which should be "640 x 480")

edit4: request: instead of "metropolis - true/false" and "bidir - true/false"
give the user the possibility to choose:
- Pathtracing Mode
- MLT Mode
- BiDir MLT Mode

edit5: i wonder if its better to hide the aspect ratio option and
compute this value with image width and height

[fused]

- ill make it [0.9 0.9 0.9], with 0.8 it looks to greyish

- no numbers, no dots (and i dont know why)

- i was also thinking about not showing aspectratio and calculate it. but not all users will use overrides (and i think everyone who uses a 3d app knows what aspect ratio is and should be able to calculate it (if not they will need to learn ))

- cant i use pathtracing with BiDir enabled? (if BiDir would be working that is)

edit: yes i can, so ill let them choose from:
- Pathtracing Mode
- Pathtracing with BiDir
- MLT Mode
- MLT with BiDir

greetz
fused

[manitwo]

- ill make it [0.9 0.9 0.9], with 0.8 it looks to greyish

mihai at the m~r-forum:
Another very important point is since some of this light (EM radiation) is absorbed by the surface, there is no way the surface will reflect back to you as much light as it received. This is why you must avoid setting the reflection color to RGB 255 as that would mean the surface doesn't absorb any light and the result is you lose contrast and get much more noise, since Maxwell has to keep calculating light reflecting back and forth between objects. The amount of light that is reflected back from white paper for example, converted to RGB values, is about 218.
which is ~(0.85 0.85 0.85)

- no numbers, no dots (and i dont know why)

no big problem

- i was also thinking about not showing aspectratio and calculate it. but not all users will use overrides (and i think everyone who uses a 3d app knows what aspect ratio is and should be able to calculate it (if not they will need to learn ))

what about a checkerbox "fixed aspect ratio" where the user can uncheck this and define a special aspect ratio if he wants to? by default it simply computes the aspect ratio with the image width and height. I for one never used a aspect ratio which isn't computed with width/height.

- cant i use pathtracing with BiDir enabled? (if BiDir would be working that is)

Afaik no, bidir works only in combination with mlt - you see, pretty confusing that way isnt it?

have fun,
manitwo

[fused]

then it shall be 0.85

im rendering an image with AR = 1335 right now

ill make a checkbox "calculate AR from render settings" (or sth like that)

[manitwo]

ill make a checkbox "calculate AR from render settings" (or sth like that)

ok, thank you! (but think about the long name ^^)

[fused]

he, i noticed what you was saying after i posted

so made a quick edit. not quick enough

ill think of a shorter name

[OnoSendai]

bidir can work without mlt.

[manitwo]

can work, but does it work? if yes -

[fused]

it doesnt. but it would if bidir was working

[Hris]

Mr.Fused - your exporter works for me fine now:) (before i had a problems with export...cinema 4d was crashing every time...now it's much better) Thanku for your hard job:) i'm waiting for next release!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

Greets from Poland
Hris

[Pinko5]

Why in render rotate the camera???
I dont undestand this error???
Help me please.
Pinko.

[WLAD]

use 3ds export. obj export is bugy. i have got the same problem with obj export.


WLAD