Indigo Renderer Forum

Hi there, haven't been here for a while so I thought I'd post this little something here. It's a modelling test done using Moment of Inspiration, a wonderfully intuitive NURBS modelling software that, for now, is free (http://www.moi3d.com/). I know many of you would have heard about it, but since we don't seem to have many MoI models in the gallery, I thought I'd drop this here. To me, this is a perfect complement to Blender, as it allows manipulations that would be nearly impossible to achieve in a poly modeller, and it delivers amazingly clean .obj meshes when using a reasonably high poly count. The models were imported in Blender and rendered with Indigo 08.

Beautiful, very clean render and amazing models!

looks like eyeballs

The more I use MoI, the more I like it. My only gripe is the high poly count you need to make NURBS objects work plausibly as poly meshes, which does slow down Blender quite a bit. I obviously need to keep experimenting a bit more to get a better compromise between realism and speed.
(also, if anyone's interested, you're well advised to split all edges in Blender after importing .obj models from MoI to avoid bizarre normals behaviour - you can still see some slight errors along the rim of the outer sphere on the second, slightly blurry, model at the back.)

it would be nice you make a little tutorial. something like quick start...

I'm gonna try it out now...

I've been fumbling in the dark myself, but I can work on a little explanation about how I imported these in Blender for rendering. Bear with me for a few days.

thanks for the heads up on the program, its very stylish looking and easy to use. sweet. Love the icons and overall look

Yes, I think so too. Much easier to approach than Rhino (though the author also developed Rhino, as far as I understand). And what a relief to have Boolean operators that actually work!!!

I love MoI , it's similiar to Rhino (developper was a Rhino coder), the only problem is that im totally SICK of this free software that when in final it will cost a lot of money...
Gibson said that it will cost 200$ when in final

I don't know. 200 bucks may seem high (unless your currency is the euro ) but it's still much lower than most of the comparable stuff out there...

Nice test BbB.

Did you use the N-gons export? I ask as I know Blender doesn't have true support for that, and your mesh looks nice & clean.

MoI is great to work with, hardly need a keyboard.

Yes, that's what I used. I find Blender messes up with tris. Then again, you really need to split all edges in order to get the mesh clean when smoothed.

Ahhh, yes... EdgeSplit? That cures a lot of woes.