Hi D-space!
..I can't tell you anything about machine(s) specs: as I said, the scene was not rendered by me, but by a kind mate over the Indigo Renderer official website. The scene is quite complex, with high (..not huge indeed..) polycount, rendered at very high resolution and containing several light sources, kept on different layers to be able to play with powers and colours separately during the rendering process. I know the whole rendering time was something about 500 hrs. I agree it is insane, but there was no way to make Borgleader stop the render

Hi Fredric! Hi all!
Indigo support IES profile emitters, so it's been easy: I made a simple emitting material and then linked it to a IES file, downloaded from some free sites found over the internet.

Glad to announce that this little side project of mine is over. I didn't remember to have posted here a so old WIP: I see huge changes!

Basically I tried to get the feeling of a small cozy place, somewhere everyone of us could live in. I am an architect, and I think that sometimes we design great spaces, double heights, we fill them with extremely expensive furniture, and we forget that sometimes THAT scares "simple" people away. This time I wanted to create something reachable, something we could all walk through and leave a sign of our passage, just a post-it, or a box of cereals..

The final image has been rendered by the VEEERY patient Borgleader. To him all the credit and a big thank you. Obviously Indigo Renderer.

..I find it a little...watercoloured!
Is it heavy noise reduction tool?

Can't wait to see some updates of this!

The render is VEEERY ggod, congratulations!
The outer vegetation is nice too: formfonts'?
I think the only thing hard to understand is the reflection of the left windows we see in the corner of the glass handrail, in the low-center of the image: it was difficult to understand what was going on there

The kitchen is cute, and the metal reflecting the sun rays really gives a feeling!

Hi David!
..indeed, I', really interested in the technique you used for to make those trees: they seem to be great. Is it a shareable model? Is that something commercial? How did you achieve such a good texture mapping?

I'm so sorr:, I know I'm kinda spamming all the vegetation threads, but I can't get good greenery models...

Hi Scottpara! I thought it could be useful to post a link to another very basic IES viewer I found over the internet a few time ago. It is a free program, but I can't recall where I got it, so here's my personal link:
http://filipposcarso.blogspot.com/search/label/downloads

The download is on the last line

Thank you a lot!!!! Exactly!
I owe you a favor!

Thank you ritzi!
I can't wait for you to upload the pack over Megaupload!
I WANNA SEE THEEEEEEEM!

Hi all!
Sorry to bother..
I can remember I freely downloaded and used a nice plugin which added some more geometry/primitive entries to the Draw menu. In particular, I was looking for chamfered boxes for a quick creation of round-cornered slabs and wood stuff.
Does anybody recall this plugin too and point me to it?

Thank you all.

Sorry guys.. I don't want to spam this topic but I'd be very glad if someone could explain how to import correctly-mapped Xfrog trees into sketchy...
Sorry TIG if I go a little off-topic: I've stumbled on your topic because I am very interested in your plugin: you did a good work. A big thank you.

Thank you so much!
Really really cute little toy!

thanks again Oli!

Dspace: I don't recall the spp value at the moment. It rendered something like a night and half-a-day, maybe reaching something about 1000s/px. But I could easily be wrong.

Hi Oli! thank you for your reply: I'm always curious when you post a new work of yours, they're really excellent, very inspiring.
My images are only two, actually: the first one of this topic, which I suppose to be lit by sun/sky only btw, is Rcossoli's. The second and the third images in this topic are mine: the last image is only HDR (indigo is astonishing sensible concerning EXR maps!), the previous was sun/sky only, since sun/sky+environment mapping are still not supported by Indigo Renderer. They're working on it, though..

I think you will be happy about the progresses I did - WITHOUT knowing your opinions - last night. I worked a little on the glass material on the left (which I still don't like a lot), I adjusted some materials and tried the lighting with HDR only (maybe not the right choice, but one has got to try). This is the result after 9hours of calculations and a little postpro.

Hi all! Hope I don't steal the thunder of the great image rcossoli has rendered: I had a look at Mahjid's model and, given the beauty of the scene, I decided to give it a try with Indigo Renderer. It is only a wip but I'd be glad if you guys could point me in the right directions..

Hi 7kashmir! Welcome to the forum!
You have a sweet couple of renders here, though it's difficult to fully appreciate their qualities due to the small size you posted them
BTW the thing that most amazes here are the trees: where are they from? warehouse?

Thank you so much Madhav: you're so generous!

Hi guys! I've been a little busy lately, so I didn't come along very often to comment your images. I am so sorry. I'me here just to post a simple WIP image I'm doing in my little spare time. No pressure on this, so I think I'll take my time and make it as realistic as possible. I posted this little work in the Indigo forum, as a kind of tribute to Whaat and his great job with the SkIndigo plugin. He suggested me to post it here too, so here it is.
A short description: I wanted the room to look somehow friendly and familiar, so I tried to use simple materials, simple furniture and simple objects of everyday life. The walls of the living room are colored with a pale green plaster; in the background, on the right, I'm going to insert a kitchen or something, going on yellow/orange tones. I'm not so convinced about the drawer on the left, and the plant lets me a little too.. I was thinking about making the living area double-heighted, and make the right part sort of a passage for a studio, situated at the second floor. Something I havo to think about a lot, actually..

BTW here is the wip, comments and critics always welcome!

Ok: THAT is the final image.
Feel free to comment as usual!