SkIndigo 0.6.1 Official Release

[Whaat]

Greetings,

Thanks for your patience in waiting for the official release. You can grab it in the downloads section under 'Exporters for 3D Apps' along with a sample Sketchup scene to mess around with:

Changes since the Beta release:

Fixed: [,,,,] characters corrupting inifile.txt on some sytems
Changed: Auto-render now aborts if there are no lights in scene
Changed: Changed the way NK_Data (Complex IOR) materials are selected
Fixed: imported 3DS materials automatically being assigned Specular material type
Fixed: applied reverse gamma correction exponent of 2.3 to diffuse color of materials
Changed: Sketchup camera aspect ratio will change based on width and height of render.
Changed: Focal Length in Set Focus Tool changed to Focus Distance
Added: Monochrome Render Modes
Added: Dull plastic, shiny plastic, leather, car paint, complex IOR presets
Changed: Specular Materials can now be transparent or non-transparent depending on the opacity setting
Changed: Negative bump values are now allowed
Changed: Changed default fresnel to 1.0

Enjoy!

Whaat

[peer]

WOOHOO! Thanks, still no export setting for 4 threads (but I added it myself in your script). I'm playing with it now! Again thank you! I hope to post something soon. I'm remodelling my office interior now and since we now also know which furniture will be in it, I can model that as well.

Regards,

Peter

[Whaat]

Peer,

I could have easily added this option to the script. The reason I didn't is because I don't know very much about multicore CPUs and multi-threading. I was concerned that increasing the number of threads might cause some systems to crash. If anyone wants to try increasing the number of threads used in the render (to 4 for example) simply modify the line in the script that reads

th_choices=%w[1 2].join("|")

to

th_choices=%w[1 2 3 4].join("|")

This should do the trick. If no one reports any problems with this, I will incorporate this into the next update of the script.

Whaat

[peer]

On my Macpro I don't have any problems with it, but I don't know if it works OK on a native Windows machine.

Thanks Again!

Peter

[ikki78]

Hi all! ..thank you whaat for your work!.. and Ono for the indigo engine... I have a question for you whaat.. is possible have an exporter of xml for have an animation?.. I don't know if that is possible.. but I think is a nice feature.. and I tried to find some simple system to do little animation. Thank you!.

[Whaat]

Yes it is possible for the script to be modified to incorporate animation but I have no plans to do so. I don't think there are many people who want to wait weeks for a five second animation. You should look into Kerkythea if you are looking for a free Sketchup Renderer that does animation.

Whaat