Indigo render issues
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Hello
I've just got the latest indigo render trial
I followed a tutorial which worked (although didn't look great because it was obviously very basic). This involved using displacement on a carpet and applying a few materials and a light.Since then I can't get it to work. I add lights in sketchup using a preset material and when I bring it into indigo there's no artificial light, only natural. I also now notice in the material editor in sketchup, when you hit preview render (to see the material applied to a cube or something) it doesn't generate any light there either..
Also, my render times are terrible, even for Indigo IMO. I brought in a scene from sketchup with some materials applied (no bump or displacement though), and even though I knew the lights wouldn't work I thought I'd leave it on.
16 hours later and it's still very noisy, and that's with GPU acceleration on!?Hope someone can help because I'm dying to use an ultra photorealistic software for my renders (atm I'm using podium). Some of the examples on the Indigo site are crazy
Oh my specs are i7 2600k, 16gb ram, 3GB gtx 580. Do you really need a CAD workstation / render farm to use Indigo?
Cheers
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Hi MrMikeEsq
The sketchup material previw doesn't show that kind of indigo material,you must check the power of the emitter light in the indigo material editor.
Indigo is a unbiased render engine, so the renders take a little bit more time to cook. To minimize the render time try use exitportals in your scene.
For more information please visit the sketchup forum in the Indigo site http://www.indigorenderer.com -
Hi Mike, when rendering lights you have to switch from reinhart to camera.
Gr Twan
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japc - sorry I wasnt clear - I meant the Indigo sketchup plugin material window, the one that can render a preview
pugz - Doh! Thanks for that tip. I also read that not enough light can cause grainy renders. You may have just solved a lot of problems haha -
That didn't work either
Annoying as I can see the more light in the scene the quicker it clears up the image -
@mrmikeesq said:
Hello
I've just got the latest indigo render trial
I followed a tutorial which worked (although didn't look great because it was obviously very basic). This involved using displacement on a carpet and applying a few materials and a light.Since then I can't get it to work. I add lights in sketchup using a preset material and when I bring it into indigo there's no artificial light, only natural. I also now notice in the material editor in sketchup, when you hit preview render (to see the material applied to a cube or something) it doesn't generate any light there either..
Also, my render times are terrible, even for Indigo IMO. I brought in a scene from sketchup with some materials applied (no bump or displacement though), and even though I knew the lights wouldn't work I thought I'd leave it on.
16 hours later and it's still very noisy, and that's with GPU acceleration on!?Hope someone can help because I'm dying to use an ultra photorealistic software for my renders (atm I'm using podium). Some of the examples on the Indigo site are crazy
Oh my specs are i7 2600k, 16gb ram, 3GB gtx 580. Do you really need a CAD workstation / render farm to use Indigo?
Cheers
MikeHi Mike,
I have a couple of suggestions for you that may help:
- Put your artificial lights on a different light layer than the natural sun light. That way you can balance them easier during the render.
- It can help to really turn up the power of the artificial lights. It may result in faster renders. You can always turn the power down later by adjusting the light layer power inside Indigo during the render.
- I assume you are trying to render an interior because an exterior render would never take that long. Sun-lit interior renders can be drastically sped up by using 'exit portals'. However, they will always be a lot slower than exterior ones.
- You don't need a render farm to use Indigo. I use a Core i7 'laptop' with a GTX 460M card and I use Indigo all the time for my production rendering work. The Indigo community is full of great advice for reducing noise and render times. I suggest poking around the Indigo forums and asking any further questions over there.
- If you have an emitting material and you are trying to preview it, it should show appear to emit light in the preview. If it doesn't show with the sphere preview, try the cube preview (There might be a bug with emitting materials for the sphere preview)
I think you have made a good choice to try Indigo. There's a bit of a learning curve (like in all software) but you will be happy if you stick with it.
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Hey Whaat,
Really good advice there, I'll definitely try exit portals and using layers. Unfortunately I can't until work on monday though!
Yep I'll stick at it, dying to achieve the results I see some people do..very cutting edge for archviz..
Any chance you can give me ideas of your personal render times? For interior, exterior etc.? Would be interesting for me
Cheers
Mike
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