Blendigo Wishlist

William · Post by **William** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:40 pm

Hi I don't see a blendigo wishlist thread so I will start

Material preview
Area lights, square and rectangle with size adjust (basically meshlight planes but easier and quicker to setup)
Export individual mesh to indigo external mesh
Coating panel for materials
Spotlight, maybe spotlights are not supported but perhaps a workaround via automatically generated IES? Spotlights are useful for positioning due to the interaction and visibility in interface
Manual viewport colour override

StompinTom · Post by **StompinTom** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:52 pm

William wrote:Hi I don't see a blendigo wishlist thread so I will start

Material preview

Area lights, square and rectangle with size adjust (basically meshlight planes but easier and quicker to setup)

Export individual mesh to indigo external mesh

Coating panel for materials

Spotlight, maybe spotlights are not supported but perhaps a workaround via automatically generated IES? Spotlights are useful for positioning due to the interaction and visibility in interface

Manual viewport colour override

- Export individual mesh... : This is already possible. Select the desired mesh, go to File > Export > Export IGMESH (or similar, haven't got it open).
- Coating panel: Thought this was put in recently?

Otherwise, yes, it would be good to see the rest of those!

William · Post by **William** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:02 pm

StompinTom wrote:- Export individual mesh... : This is already possible. Select the desired mesh, go to File > Export > Export IGMESH (or similar, haven't got it open).

Cool! did not know

StompinTom wrote:- Coating panel: Thought this was put in recently?

There is a coating material but you need to specify the base material (subsequently needing two materials)
I'm talking placing the coating like this

steven369 · Post by **steven369** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:01 am

Live Viewport Preview !!!!! Like we saw it in Cindigo or OtoyBlender. Might not be the fanciest feature, but for the workflow it would be quite a hack!

FakeShamus · Post by **FakeShamus** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:56 am

William wrote: There is a coating material but you need to specify the base material (subsequently needing two materials)
I'm talking placing the coating like this
coatingpanel.jpg

this way would make a lot of sense.
additionally, I would like to see null materials with emission properties available, now that it's possible in Indigo. (with back-face emit option, too!)

Post by **Oscar J** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:17 pm

steven369 wrote:Live Viewport Preview !!!!! Like we saw it in Cindigo or OtoyBlender. Might not be the fanciest feature, but for the workflow it would be quite a hack!

+1. The single most longed for exporter feature me thinks. It's 2014 after all.

kklors · Post by **kklors** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:21 pm

We don't have live preview in Cindigo : D

zeitmeister · Post by **zeitmeister** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:46 am

No? You could simply activate it in c4d...
"Preview region" or something like that.

Grüsse, zeiti

Zom-B · Post by **Zom-B** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:33 am

zeitmeister wrote:No? You could simply activate it in c4d...
"Preview region" or something like that.

The idea behind a live preview is that the renderer don't need to "rebuild" the whole scene again (like calculating subdiv, sample the HDRI, build BVHs etc.)
At the moment C4Ds RegionRender does exactly that :/

zeitmeister · Post by **zeitmeister** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:24 am

Fused told me some time ago that Cindigo keeps some things in the RAM when rerendering a scene.
I remember that i got the impression at some point, but in the latest versions it definately doesnt any more.
It would be so cool to get Indigo let the user decide wether "rebuild complete" or "export only changes" on export or rendering, you are very right.

Grüsse, zeiti

riley1389 · Post by **riley1389** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:54 am

Particle Support
Normal Maps

pixie · Post by **pixie** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:30 am

zeitmeister wrote:Fused told me some time ago that Cindigo keeps some things in the RAM when rerendering a scene.
I remember that i got the impression at some point, but in the latest versions it definately doesnt any more.
It would be so cool to get Indigo let the user decide wether "rebuild complete" or "export only changes" on export or rendering, you are very right.

Grüsse, zeiti

It once had a simply but powerfull hack, 'export without geometry'... very usefull to tweaking a scene.