No light through windows, lights problems

Agone from Paris · Post by **Agone from Paris** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:18 am

Hi all, I am new here, I live in Paris and I am 33, i want to learn to use Indigo to create virtual home staging visuals with a professional render.

I have begun to use Google Sketchup with Indigo, and I have several different problems:

1) I created windows in my flat , and made sure that the glass material was translucid, but i don't manage to have sun through the windows in my indigo render : do you know why ?

2) I don't really manage to create realistic ceiling lights ( and lights also), they are too weak and i have to put 12 in a 35m² room to have enough light, I think i really missed something

I have other questions but I think that these 2 ones will already focus my time

Thanks in advance for your help, and if one of you lives in Paris, I am looking for a teacher to improve faster !

Voytech · Post by **Voytech** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:56 am

I suggest watching the tutorials here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... ature=plcp

That should answer most of your questions.

Headroom · Post by **Headroom** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:52 pm

It seems in our haste we have forgotten some forum etiquette

so...Hi and welcome to the forum!
The video tutorials are an excellent suggestion and if you still have questions, please ask here on the forum.

I believe users CTZn and Galinette are located in France.

Agone from Paris · Post by **Agone from Paris** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:42 pm

Thanks a lot for your kind answers

THe videos are helping me a lot

I was wondering about which kind of sun, sky, environment did you use, and also for the lights, do you use ies lights or just a light texture from the indigo material database ?
And for the windows, i heard you spoke about "portals", what do you mean by portals ?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my noobness ( but we all have to begin one day

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lycium · Post by **lycium** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:15 am

Regarding the sunlight through windows, there are two important things here: the modelling of the glass, and the selected render mode.

There's a little tutorial explaining the basics here: http://www.indigorenderer.com/documenta ... ling-glass

Hope that helps

Agone from Paris · Post by **Agone from Paris** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:16 am

Now i have this error message :

A problem occurred with the scene:
Error while building scene: IESDataExcep: IESDatumExcep: Only IES files with vertical angles ending at 90 degrees supported.

Though i switched different IES lights...

lycium · Post by **lycium** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:20 am

Sorry, not all IES files are currently supported, however Indigo will support these in the future.

pixie · Post by **pixie** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:25 am

lycium wrote:Sorry, not all IES files are currently supported, however Indigo will support these in the future.

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