Indigo Renderer Forum

Hi,

as most of you know, radiance collected some quotations for the front page a while ago. Since this ain't a commercial product OR home shopping television, I think the current euphemistic quotes aren't that suitable.
A random tip of the day, displayed in the site's header would imho be a more useful approach.
I'm sure anyone of you who worked with Indigo, came across something he/she discovered in the process. A somewhat hidden feature, something that smoothed your workflow, something a new user could find useful.

Some examples:

"Tip of the day: Indigo includes a rich database for easy metal material setup: link"

"Tip of the day: Did you know that Indigo is free? "

"Tip of the day: Did you know, that Indigo supports distributed network rendering? [link to network rendering documentation]"


I'm sure you get where I'm going with this. Let's collect some useful tips, if possible with a link to the referencing documentation, for radiance to include in the banner.

skypa

"Start Indigo before bed to wake up to a nice noise-free render."

"The tonemapping parametre 'Burn' can simulate exposure control."

"To keep blackbodies from yellowing your scene too much, use the appropriate white balance."

"OnoSendai loves DoF."

"Indigo can easily be used as your final renderer with most of today's 3D Applications" [link to plugin site]

"The lively indigo-community can help you with any information about the renderer" [link to forum]

"Did you know that indigo renders your scenes in a physical accurate way? [link to technical features of indigo]

"Indigo allows you to use environment-maps for extremly realistic lighting setup" [link to documentation for environment-maps feature]

hope this helps,
will add some tips everytime i visit the forum
Marquis

"To make a perfect mirror, set diffuse to 0,0,0; specular to 1,1,1; and exponent to 1,000,000"

"Avoid using pure white(1 1 1), the noise would stay much longer."

"start several instances of Indigo to render several images at the same time"

"If it doesn't work, make it a jpg."
"If its twice the size, it takes more then twice the time."
"For uncorupted renders, keep cat AWAY from power cord."

edited to remove all

Indigo uses exr images for environment map lighting. To convert hdri images to exr use "hdr2exr" (command line app). http://hem.bredband.net/b230591/hdr2exr ... _win32.zip

To use both cores on a double core system use -t 2 command line option. So you can enhance rendering time

With the help of Himachi [Link: http://www.hamachi.cc/], you can help or get help with your renderings. Just like if you where in the same room!