Indigo Renderer Forum

Hi

These squares represent the 4 threads running?

Never seen them in my life, ever. With Indigo, that is. Is this some special feature?

contegufo wrote:These squares represent the 4 threads running?

Yes exactly, this are threads in bucket Rendermode of some other Render engine, representing CPU cores here, that usually start counting at 0.

Hi

It is V-Ray as well C4D (global illumination) and MODO behave the same way.

Indeed, but not Indigo. ;D

^ And for the better - I don't see why you'd want that on top of your image like that. You can set the number of threads Indigo should use in your exporter, and you can check how many you're using in the Render Log.

Hi

I have an Intel i5 CPU two cores 4 threads that are intercepted in calculation. Indigo uses them as C4d, MODO or V-Ray hope rather than the version 4 see my GPU!

You have to understand the algorithms and the pros and cons betweens "Buckets" and "Progressive" rendering.

Buckets:
Are mostly there to allow better memory handling. Because the picture is only rendering at the area your buckets are located at. This can be more Memory efficient as only parts of the image has to be held in memory.
Also there are techniques where from textures only pixels that are needed can be drawn from disc and loaded dynamically in to the systems memory. With buckets normally you get one bucket per CPU thread.

Progressive:
This samples the whole picture as a whole showing your results of the scene lighting and shading very early on. Of course for that technique the whole picture and all textures have to be held in the system ram. Clear advantage is the fast interactive progressions in rendering. This technique also allows for real time feedback.

Overall you can not judge the render power or your core usage by what technique is used. Both of them are multi core capable and if coded well will take full advantage of all your cores.

Cheers,
Raphael