Indigo Renderer Forum

Is everyone running Blender 2.57? I'm mid-project right now so can't switch to the new update, but everything worked fine before, minus the issues I already posted about, most of which seem to be fixed in this release...

Hi, dougal2, that's a great work you've done on both exporters!

I am not able to find settings for aperture diffraction. Because if you have ap. diff. disable in Blendigo, it's not possible to enable it in Indigo while rendering. It throws Windows error dialog "Indigo.exe has stopped working etc."

Aperture diffraction is under Blender camera options along with ISO and f-stop settings.

Silmä wrote:Aperture diffraction is under Blender camera options along with ISO and f-stop settings.

Oh.. Thanks!

Doug Armand wrote: Good idea - OK I just tried that but still nothing. Would help if we got a simple 'how-to' with pretty pictures please?

OK I think I've solved it now and Silmä was right about the paths needing to be absolute not relative - there are 2 paths that need changing. The path to where Indigo is installed and the output path - I forgot the output path earlier.

So thank you Silmä for that

Just made an upgrade to Blender 2.57b and Indigo 3.0.10

Everything works fine untill I use a external Material.
I get the following error:

thanks, now I can start the manual !

everwind wrote:thanks, now I can start the manual !

Tu veux pas te mettre à Maya plutôt ?

private joke ;P

Yup. External Materials don't seem to work. Error message on console is what's Zlaty Lev posted above.

Making the packed images/textures in the Blender file available is quite a nifty feature. Thanks Doug!

During export, if Blendigo could handle two things, it'd be great:
- skipping objects/meshes with no faces (gives a 'Model tried to use mesh with invalid IUD' or something in Indigo)
- applying a simple 80% grey diffuse material to objects with no material (crashes export)

Oh, and Blendigo doesn't export Curve objects, requiring them to be converted to meshes, which limits their usability...

+1 about previous post


another suggestion : check that blade curvature is >= blade offset (I guess it's possible before exportation no ?)

The Oren Nayar Material is missing in the Material Selection.
Also agree with Tom that having curve objects exported would be nice!

Also the XM button that disables mesh export has gone astray, or am just looking in the wrong panel ?