First Indigo Render

eg2k6 · Post by **eg2k6** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:24 am

Here is my first Indigo Render, "Snowman in the Forest".

modeled in blender, rendered in indigo 0.6 for 1 hour.

it looks like some sort of toy set.

Stur · Post by **Stur** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:40 am

Hi and welcome !

Cute snowman. The black areas on the trees look like a normal problem. Did you check your normals ?

neepneep · Post by **neepneep** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:43 am

amazing. 10/10

eg2k6 · Post by **eg2k6** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:48 am

ill try flipping the normals.

is there any way to flip the normals for more than one object at once?

EDIT: flipping the normals did not work. oh well.

arneoog · Post by **arneoog** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:52 am

it's caused by very sharp edges on objects with smooth normals

Probably edges that are more than 30 or 20 degrees.. I think..

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:09 am

can you render the pic from the other side?
Or remodel the trees with a higher verticle count...
Is the nose sepperated from the snowman?
If so: as it's 0.6, you wont use SSS, so you can erase the bottom of the nose, to get rid of those normal problems

The same thing is possible with the trees, maybe, 'cause they're looking round enough... it may is, 'caus you let the bottoms of the cones in...
Except your plane, and spheres, everything has a normalproblem...
you should erase unneeded stuff, as long as you don't use transparent materials or SSS (or it should be mirrored)

looks great!
How is it lit?

eg2k6 · Post by **eg2k6** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:14 am

it is lit with regular lamps. (not sun lamps) maybe i should try a sun lamp.
but last time i put a sun lamp

he started to melt

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:45 am

nice

DaveC · Post by **DaveC** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:17 am

Snowmen are still in vogue, eh? Cool stuff. I think you could try adding and Edgesplit modifier to the trees, hat and snowman's nose. Oh, and the tree trunks. That should sort out the black edges if the normals are all correct.

Look forward to more renders

Stur · Post by **Stur** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:37 pm

Could you show us a wireframe of the trees with the "show normals" option ?

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:16 am

The normals are ok. As arneoog said, it's the sharp edge at the basis of the cones wich is smoothed by Indigo. Either bevel these edges (you'll loose sharpness), separate the basis from the cone (make 2 objects where there is one) or export these cones as *.obj.

When you export geometry as XML, for Indigo its either totally smooth or totally hard edged. Use these workarounds.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:47 am

Best would be seperate it, I guess...
mark the bottom and press [P] should work

DaveC · Post by **DaveC** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:41 am

Kram1032 wrote:Best would be seperate it, I guess...
mark the bottom and press [P] should work

That's what the edgesplit modifier does. PLEASE try the edgesplit modifier. It will change your life.

Ok. Maybe not change your life. But it will most probably solve the problem at hand.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:42 am

yes, but it has to be placed AFTER SubDiv

eg2k6 · Post by **eg2k6** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:48 am

i'll render this again later.

im working on real modeling now (all of the shapes here are spheres, cones, and cylinders). i need some help with my bunny (in the WIP forum)

the same thing is happening