Indigo, baby!

Stinkie

Nice one Stinkie. It looks you are enjoying the Indigo a lot.

I do. It's straight forward and delivers results - which is what I like about SU and Podium too. I think I read somewhere Whaat based the exporter's UI on Podium's.

Frederik

@unknownuser said:

I think I read somewhere Whaat based the exporter's UI on Podium's.

Not quite... See attached...

BTW - Nice renders...

Stinkie

I should learn to express myself more clearly.

What I meant is: I think Whaat was inspired by the Podium UI. For the look and feel, I mean.

DzineTech

Really nice images Stinkie; so refreshing to see 'spotless' renders

Going by these and Lrsuser's dining room image, it looks like Indigo is capable of some really nice stuff. Just a shame it takes so long to render.

Are there any rumours of this being improved for the next release?

Stinkie

Unbiased rendering takes long, that's just how it is. Maxwell's slow, Fry is, and so is Indigo. But for some things it's just the best solution. (As is biased rendering. Both methods have their advantages. )

Indigo may render slow, but it sure does produce good results. Without a complicated UI, a lot of setting up etc. That interior I posted maybe took me 1/2 hour to set up.

Stinkie

Yeah ... (Sk)Indigo provides a smooth and easy workflow. For most materials, I just use Whaats presets and tweak from there, using the reflection and exponent sliders. No need for adjusting Fresnel etc.

And as for render time: I own a copy of modo, which is very, very fast. However, if I wanted to do that interior I posted in modo, well, that would've taken A LOT of tweaking and test rendering. And I seriously doubt the result would be as good.

solo

http://www.splutterfish.com/sf/WebContent/Index

See the gallery.

I am trying out the new Max plugin, so far it's amazing (but not had time to really play with it yet)

Stinkie

Already did. There's some groovy images in there.

Whaat

The importance of quick setup time is extremely underrated. My primary goals with SkIndigo were quick setup time, ease of use, and fast/intuitive workflow.

Yes, the UI of version 1.0+ was somewhat inspired by Podium. The core geometry export algorithm (a few lines of code) is the only remnant of SU2KT in SkIndigo. Everything else was rewritten.

BTW, the official stable releases of Indigo / SkIndigo 1.0 are right around the corner.

Stinkie

@whaat said:

The importance of quick setup time is extremely underrated. My primary goals with SkIndigo were quick setup time, ease of use, and fast/intuitive workflow.

Yes, the UI of version 1.0+ was somewhat inspired by Podium. The core geometry export algorithm (a few lines of code) is the only remnant of SU2KT in SkIndigo. Everything else was rewritten.

BTW, the official stable releases of Indigo / SkIndigo 1.0 are right around the corner.

Well, you succeeded. I owe both you and TBD. If it weren't for Podium and (Sk)Indigo, well, I probably would be rendering a lot less.