Igor's renderings

remus

make sure youve got the indigo toolbar up (view->toolbar->SKindigo), and your looking for the button below:

indigo render.JPG

igor

hey, thanks a ton. i feel kind of stupid now, especialy since you had to make a drawing for me. I never thought of looking under "view"! indigo renderings are on thier way!!

remus

LOL, its not obvious until you know what your looking for. And I'm looking forward to seeing those renders

igor

indigo refuses to work! the tool bar show up, but there are no buttons on it! (d'oh), i messed around w/ the files, and now the tool bar doesnt even show up!! i looked on the indigo site and they said to just put the file in the plugins folder.
it didnt work

in the mean time, here is another podium rendering (model found on 3-d warehouse):

sepo

Hi Igor

Seems to me you like Podium. Come and join us on the Podium forum. You will find a lot of help (if needed) there.

igor

im well on my way with podium.
easiest. renderer. ever.

im trying to learn indigo for a class project (long story). simply put, i want to get some biger renders without having to spend lots of $

indigo refuses to work though!!! maybe my 5 other plugins are messing with it...

igor

my plight with indigo continues. the buttons dont show up on the tool bar. when ever i try to use one of the options, it opens windows exporer and then an eror mesage that wont go away no matter how many times you click the "continue" button. the only way to get rid of it is to close SU, wich generates a bug slpat. the renders look great when i get the image into indigo, but getting it there is definatly not worth it. podium 2.0, where are you?

remus

Igor, im not sure what youve done to indigo, but it seems to have gone badly wrong!

If you can be bothered, id suggest wiping indigo from your system (and skindigo) and then trying a clean re install. If youve been palying aorund with it theres a good chance something went astray, and its usually much harder to fix it than to just reinstall the whole thing.

igor

thanks for the advice remus. say, do you have a brother named romulus?...

here are some more renderings. credit to whoever make the highly accurate BMW!

remus

Nope, i dont have a brother called romulus, although it would be rather coincedental if i did

Nice render btw, very clean, perhaps experiment with the lighting a bit to get soem more feel in there.

igor

right now i have another render baking. i didnt playaround w/ the lighting, just with reflection. comings soon! (ie, when i get back from school).

remus

I look forward to it

igor

fresh from the oven! i dont know what happened to the ball on the left, maybe it started to "cut" in to the car?

this took about 1700/10,000 iterations of the podium render script. on my wimpy computer that might as well have no grafix card.

next up: indor scenes!

igor

ok, skrew indigo!!!!! i am soo pissed at it right now! not only did i spend my time uninstalling and reinstalling it 2 times, now it has messed with my prefrences!!!! now, instead of starting with the normal SU screen, it starts with the view from the top, completly monochrome style and no bryce!!! and no matter what i do, it wont go back!!

i went so far as to remove all my plugins fron the plugins folder, leaving only indigo and its path to the program, and it still wont work!!! i still get error mesages ever time i try to use it, and the buttons dont show up!!!!

i am officialy boycoting indigo. end of story. bye bye! podium RULES

remus

Thats very strange indeed. Do you know how to set your template that loads at startup? window->preferneces->template, and just set it to the one you had before.

igor

thx remus. ill try. in themean time, heres another render (the floor glitched again. i just copy the model to another file, right?) :

igor

new one! indor scene, and the floor got screwed up. oh well, the car looks cool! sorry if its a little dark. view full to get full impact! (ie: click on the picture)

DZootZuiter

Hello Igor,
From the looks of the post it seems that you are using Podium to do your rendoring. While I don't have nearly the talent which you seem to display, I was wondering if you can help me out. I have been trying to render a piece of metal, and I can't seem to get the surface to resemble it. Any tips?

Thanks,
DZootZuiter

igor

hey! welcome to the forums!
depends on the metal you are trying to replicate. chrome is simple: make the face grey then select the fave and move the "reflection" slider all the way up
brushed metal: SU has a pretty good texture for this. put it on the face and dont do anything to the sliders. later on you can use bump maps for a more real effect.

mind to tell me what metal you are trying to make?

ive got another render, er, rendering right now. coming soon!

DZootZuiter

Thank for the info, what I'm trying to accomplish is gold. I also want to make something out of obsidian which has a glassy quality to it, any ideas on that?

Thanks