Indigo Renderer Forum

Okay, this is starting to drive me crazy. Could a kind soul please explainto me how to use external materials with blendigo? I have extracted the pigm but no matter where I put the files, blendigo (v2.2.11-d) still gives me this rather useless error (it would be a bit more useful if it told the user what the problem actually is!) :

can't preview emitter or external material, sorry

I thought that the link to the jpg's were wrong, so I opened the igm in a text editor and manually changed the paths, but still no luck.

The materials are working fine with the indigo material editor, so what's up with blendigo?

I think u can't preview via Blendigo,
but it's really easy with Material Editor.

Are u shure u want to use preview or start rendering your scene (the whole work)?

Maybe one suggestion for future version of Blendigo. It would be nice to have Blendigo launch the material editor with the external material when selecting "Preview" for external material.

So, the button simply doesn't work? Maybe it would be a good idea to remove it then.

Another thing, when you use an external material you can't really change the setting inside indigo. Is there a way to actually load the material settings into blendigo to do a little tweaking there? When using the material editor I quickly end up with many versions of the same material with only tiny differences and it is a mess

namco wrote:So, the button simply doesn't work? Maybe it would be a good idea to remove it then.

It works - just not with external materials

If your using External Materials then I recommend that you get into a workflow that includes the Indigo Material Editor as it is really much more flexible - for instance it is real easy to create multi-blend materials in it - try doing that in Blendigo!