Indigo Renderer Forum

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:34 pm**

Hi! I was just working on a test, Indigo VS

Maxwell

and, I was rendering a "Light Labyrinth". This is just a little scene to see how light is transported and how Indirect Illumination comes into play.

Anyway- I think I screwed something up about the Maxwell one (but yeah, it's the demo) so I will probably rerender it tomorrow.

Apart from a few normal smoothing issues (which I will turn off on my next render) it looks really good. Cleared up very fast as well.

After 2hrs45mins and 2500 mutations per pixel I got this (all materials are phongs, with a VERY low exponent)

Which is much faster then the Maxwell 1.0.1 one... cleared up MUCH faster

Nick- YOU ARE DA MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

peace,
Matt

ps. Happy 4th of July to all americans out there[/img]

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:53 pm**

Hi ThatDude33

very nice for the test

Did you have answer? Ingido vs Maxwell---which speed quicker

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:54 am**

Indigo of course

rerendering NOW

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:59 am**

ThatDude33

The NL releases a new Maxwell 1.1, I will test in weekend 1.1 of speed

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:51 am**

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=17022

This is new data, the NL releases new M~W each time, NL always says:We have already modified M~W speed.................. swindler

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:49 pm**

maxwell

Indigo

I'm sorry to say that maxwell won

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:22 am**

why looking for a winner? maxwell is a commercial package and
you should not compare it with a freeware one.
indigo's quality is very high and this is what matters.

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:27 am**

oh, I'm not looking for a winner. For me, Indigo is more useable, but I just wanted to test light transport compared to Maxwell.

Indigo glass renders better than Maxwell Glass. I could prove that.

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:23 am**

Ok ... I expected a difference in noise but i I didn't expect that theres so a huge difference in lighttransport and colour.
But hey ... indigo is a still a baby - when indigo is grown up it will be the rocker

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Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:37 am**

I actually think, now that manitwo pointed it out, that Indigo's light transport is better. Of course, if I cranked up the Iso in Maxwell, then some areas would eb more illuminated.

I think my problem was that on the Indigo one, I used Indigo Diffuse, but on the Maxwell one I used a material with 92 roughness (100 is lambertian).

anyway- I still think that Indigo has true-er Global Illumination.

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:37 pm**

i personally don't think there's a huge difference, and actually the case
that the indigo scene is stronger illuminated acts as an advantage for
maxwell to converge faster (or at least the noise is less observable).

Posted: **Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:29 pm**

Quite an interesting difference in the amount of colour bleeding; apart from that, the two renders are quite similar (altho the indigo one has more noise)

edit: perhaps this is due to the reflectivity of the indigo walls being higher?

Posted: **Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:13 pm**

To ThatDude33:
Agree indigo's glass renders better than maxwellrender!

Notice the bottom of cup. It's so dark! Maybe my material is setting wrong...

Posted: **Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:03 am**

Very interesting comparison Wzn, I think the cause of the dark area in the maxwell render is the infamous 'sunlight thru glass' issue.

Posted: **Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:35 pm**

well...im new in indigo its very very promising an of course its free and non comercial it a alpha version...comparing to maxwell its unfair..

keep the good work!the unbiased team growing!