Indigo Manual

[benn]

Attached is the first release of our Indigo Manual. Please let me know if there are any errors or omissions you see in it - I appreciate your comments and will fold them back into the manual.

The techniques manual and exporter manuals that are referred to in the manual are still-in-development.

This manual will be included with the next release of Indigo. I hope it's clear enough to introduce new users to most of the concepts in using Indigo.

[Godzilla]

First Download


I'll read through it as soon as I can, Thanks Ben!


Edit: Been reading through it, and one very notable typo I've seen so far is on page 6 -

"...dark room with too an exposure that is too short." Made me giggle.


I'll continue to update you with any errors I see, but I noticed on page 15 you seem to have Steam installed?

Care to give me your steam ID, Benn?

[Conceptual Architect]

Great news!!! Thanks Benn!! Download...

[benn]

thanks for the error - fixed. i'm bennolanindigo. i play tf2

[Godzilla]

Alright added you.


... And Ono... Nice avatar Ono

[WytRaven]

Looks excellent Ben. That should really help people get started quickly.

To be honest though I think it should be called the Indigo Quick Start Guide rather than Manual.

[Borgleader]

Looks excellent Ben. That should really help people get started quickly.

To be honest though I think it should be called the Indigo Quick Start Guide rather than Manual.

+1

[Doug Armand]

Quick read and found it very clean and easy to follow. Like others have said more of a intro or quick guide but good none the less.

[PureSpider]

Having a GUI Licence does not mean that you can use unlicensed render
slaves to generate a high resolution image, you will need a node licence for
each computer that will be used to help your render your image.

Indigo will write a registry key that exporters will use to
find Indigo automatically if it Indigo is installed in a non-standard location.

And on Page 30 there is a logical error.
Either it is ISO 200 for the bottom images or the ISO numbers below the top images are wrong.

[Zom-B]

nice manual/quickstart guide Ben... well done!

Only thing that is confusing is the minimum system requirements:

A short explanation that Indigo takes 15MB RAM to start and the following RAM needs are determined by render resolution + SS factor, texture amount and size, and finaly the polycount of the scene.

Also the 100MB of hardware Space is tricky... first of indigo takes 50MB space where ever you install it and then regarding to saving option (igi+exr's), render size and tree cache it eats HDD space like candy on drive C...

Maybe I'm a little picky about this

[Whaat]

I would like to see it a bit more professional looking. I think the content is very good, though.

You might want to add a link to it from the 'Documentation' section of the website.

[PureSpider]

I would like to see it a bit more professional looking. I think the content is very good, though.

You might want to add a link to it from the 'Documentation' section of the website.

+1 and while speaking about links... correct the link to the various cam tone mapping methods... doesn't work atm.

[Stromberg]

Love the manual(Quick start)
Very nice

[cpfresh]

someone should also add SketchUp to the list of available exporters.

[benn]

Fixed the +sketchup thing.

I'd love to make it more professional looking if you've got concrete ideas?