Official techniques manual

[Soup]

Hey there everyone,
I've been working on a document to be a resource for a bunch of ways to make your renders look snappy, addressing common mistakes and problems people run into when first starting out with Indigo.

I would love to hear feedback on the quality of the pages, and any suggestions on what else to include. We're aiming for a solid 30 so there's a few more to go!

I will keep posting new ones to this thread so check back often

*update*
Missed the second page for Phong

[pixie]

Hey there everyone,
I've been working on a document to be a resource for a bunch of ways to make your renders look snappy, addressing common mistakes and problems people run into when first starting out with Indigo.

I would love to hear feedback on the quality of the pages, and any suggestions on what else to include. We're aiming for a solid 30 so there's a few more to go!

I will keep posting new ones to this thread so check back often

I just wante to nit pick, but in saturation it's 255 rather then 256 since the range starts on 0 and not on 1.

[Godzilla]

Great manual, my only suggestion would be to try and find better images for the bump mapping page- the texture used seems a little low- resolution.

[Soup]

Hey thanks that's good info, I'm sure I've missed one or two of the little technical things around the place.
Cheers

[Zom-B]

Nice paper,a good reference for every newbie

Referring to your full PDF, the generated bookmarks are sometimes not Headlines only, but also the text beneath them...


I think there is a misleading information about the Use of IES:

You tell the user to take "a small, single plane mesh"

So far so good, but in your example you use a quad polygon! Indigo only supports triangles, so on Export your mesh gets divided and bang, you end up having 2 light sources instead of one!

[CTZn]

Good job $oup, makes learning Indigo way more friendly !

Another nitpick: the vocabulary used for black materials and their counterpart is confusing: better refer to absorbed light rather than to reflected light, because albedo and IOR are not correlated.

[benn]

Great articles Soup, we'll be putting these onto a tutorials page in the near future.

[Godzilla]

Another suggestion- in the image on the beveling tab, the beveling is pretty excessive.

Hope you don't mind me posting suggestions here, I just want to help you improve the manual.

[Pibuz]

Thanks Soup for your service: that is pretty cool!
Can i have some specifics about font, font size, length of the "contruction lines", distance from the borders etc, for I am writing some tuts for the italian guys and it would be nice to have the same layout.
OR you could send me the template (only openoffice format allowed, though...)