Black Images

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:46 am

I just downloaded Indigo and am struggling to use it. So far I have been unsuccessful. Here are two of my attempts. The monkey was rendered in Blender and Indigo, and the vase was rendered in Yafray and Indigo.

Both the pictures assign a black, non reflective material to things I don't want. Why is this?

Stur · Post by **Stur** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:07 am

Hi !

Which version of Indigo and which exporter did you use ?
And what kind of lighting did you set ?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:09 am

I'm using Indigo 0.6. I downloaded it from the Stable Releases page. I set up one sun lamp, 15 degrees left of the camera, pointed at the subjects. I used the v0.6beta3 exporter.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:57 am

This looks really strange...
Now, the new indigo version (atm 0.7.5 soonish 0.7.6)
is already easier to use, than 0.6, 'cause of the better exporters...
try 0.7.5

It's quite stable, I never had a problem with it, yet (except 'cause of my fault) and blendigo is really helpful

Did you use thick materials? (especially the vase)
and did you use phong, or specular?
I recomend you, to use phong, as both the vase and suzanne don't seem to be transparent in the other two renders

(you can set it up, by don't using Raymirrior or Raytrans, but quite a high Specularity

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:19 pm

I can't find 0.7.6 exporter. And I couldn't find 0.7.5, so I downloaded .7 test 4. I tried with .6 exporter with .7 test 4 and got a fatal error pretty quickly.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:50 pm

wait, I'll post the links

Edit1: Indigo 0.7 test 5 test 6 isn't out, yet, it will be there soonish (which can be between one hour and one year

Ono doesn't want to even a very blurry "about"

)

Edit2: Violet tonemapper It's a new feature for 0.7 test 5!
It's a post work tonemapper, so, that you can refine many things

Just read throug the Thread, to get more infos

Edit3: Newest Blendigo exporter read through the whole first post, to find out, what may is wrong

You don't just need a python script, but some additional stuff. You can find all the stuff on the page

(Check the attachment: Is there just one file (a .py)? Then you have to look for the rest in the same post....)

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:57 am

Edit2: Violet tonemapper It's a new feature for 0.7 test 5!
It's a post work tonemapper, so, that you can refine many things

...and hopefully fix your problem. Aren't you using linear tonemapping ?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:55 pm

I have no idea what kind of tonemapping I'm using. That's how n00b I am. Interestingly enough, I tried another render with the setup I described earlier. The image showed steady improvement for the first 3 hours, then got worse/stayed the same for the next 7. What could be the reason for this?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:40 pm

I can't get Blendigo to work. Either IndigoWrapper.conf is in the proper folder, and the exporter won't run, or I remove IndigoWrapper, and the exporter will open but it won't do anything.

Stur · Post by **Stur** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:15 pm

Did you edit IndigoWrapper.conf with notepad to set your path to indigo.exe ?

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:06 pm

maybe, this helps...
Blendigo Tutorial