Indigo Renderer Forum

I seem to remember reading somewhere that indigo had some scale built into it. I.E. 1 unit = 1 meter or some such. Howevere I can't for the life of me find where I might have read that. So my question is:

Does indigo have some wort of scale internaly? If so what is it? And how much do I want to make my models conform to this scale if I want accurate renders?

Thanks in advance!

Good question ! Last night I quasi-turned crazy because my object (cornell box) was eaten at 95% by a spherical, reflective object. That wasn't defined in the scene

After a while it turned out like so: my camera was outside the skylight, and the scene roughly the same size as it ! So there must definitly be some scale built-in...

I think Indigo uses meters (if I remember correctly from the camera stuff). And Maya uses units usually equal to 1cm by default. It is arbitrary though unless you are using Mental Ray shaders like miSSS_fast that have scale based effects.

The point for Maya users- scale in Maya preferences is not respected. One Maya unit should come across as one Meter in Indigo by default then.

-shawn

Oh, good to know for me

So I guess Indigo's environment surface is approximately at 220m from the origin of the scene...

Thanks Shawn !

For bidirectional ray tracing, i've modelled the environment as a sphere with radius 300m IIRC. So if ur model is too big crazy things will happen

Okay

I may end up having to scale things differently then :p I typically work in the 1 unit = 1 inch or 1 unit = 1 cm scale.

But I usually work on small things like pens and coins.

OnoSendai wrote:For bidirectional ray tracing, i've modelled the environment as a sphere with radius 300m IIRC. So if ur model is too big crazy things will happen

i think that must by why i would get pink scenes!

Mmmh I'm not sure that shifts the color, having pink or blue scenes is more a matter of setting the white point for the camera. ie if it's set to D65 try a lower value, like D. In the other hand your image could become bluish, that's about balancing that right.

eman7613 wrote:

OnoSendai wrote:For bidirectional ray tracing, i've modelled the environment as a sphere with radius 300m IIRC. So if ur model is too big crazy things will happen

i think that must by why i would get pink scenes!

I was getting the same on a geo-referenced building i was working on, them I moved it to the world origin and problem solved !.

The pink renders where kind of cool for a "styled render" if you are into that sort of things.

OnoSendai wrote:For bidirectional ray tracing, i've modelled the environment as a sphere with radius 300m IIRC. So if ur model is too big crazy things will happen

I'm so glad you said that Nick.... I spent ages trying to figure out a way of keeping the sky sphere as an infinite-distance emitter while keeping it able to generate photons. It's hard enough doing caustic perturbations with path-tracing and a sky, let alone bi-PT and a sky

Ian.