I tried enabling GPU acceleration in Skindigo but it seems substantially slower than regular CPU rendering. Why is that? I have dual nVIdia 670's so I thought that GPU would accelerate rendering not slow it down.

Thanks guys. What do the different options in the exponent dropdown mean and which one do I want to use? Here is a render of my scene. I used 5 IOR and 5,000 exponent and selected "SketchUp" in the dropdown although I have no idea what that does. How do you think my realism is and what would you sug...

Phong is correct. You need a much higher exponent value (something like 500 - 10000) and you might want to up the IOR value a bit as well. The tooltip says that exponent is roughness. What does that do to the texture, just make it look more "rough"? How does that add reflection? WHich option in the...

I want add a slight amount of reflection to the wood floor in this scene to make it look more realistic. I am having trouble achieving this in Indigo though. In the material editor, I tried selecting specular, but that just take away the wood texture and just makes it a reflective surface. I also tr...

How does the coating material work? I selected the surface and changed it from phong to coating. I then clicked on the "substrate" button but nothing happened. Beneath and to the right of the substrate button is the word "Map". On the far right is a dropdown box with on explanation of what it is but...

Heh, I will view the videos again. However, I am just not clear on how materials are supposed to work. Phong I believe just makes it shiny. I wanted to add a slight amount of reflectiveness to it. In order to do that, am I meant to make a copy of the screen object and paste it on top and give it a d...

Thanks. I watched those tutorials and they weren't much help. They helped to explain how materials work, but not really how to use them in a real project. It only explains the differences between all the render types. Here is the scene I am working with: http://i63.tinypic.com/magvfm.jpg As an exerc...

I am using Indigo as my renderer for Sketchup. I created a scene with a wooden desk using a wood texture from Sketchup. I decided I want to add a little reflection to the surface. How do I do that exactly? There are no options to add reflection to the object. Is there a theory that I should be follo...

Oddly enough, I removed the desk lamp and those weird light tan speckles went away. Can anyone help and explain why those speckles were appearing? I let it render for several hours and they didn't go away. I posted on another general forum that I go to and the guys gave me some tips like adding some...

Hey guys. I am brand new to modeling and rendering. I am using Sketchup 2016 and Indigo since it seems to me to be the best of the bunch. This is the 2nd scene I've created and I am still learning. My question is why am I getting those light tank speckles all over the scene? They seem most pronounce...