Indigo Renderer Forum

i take this photo from stompin tom, one of the "best of indigo", i just have a question for the picture below!

what is the tracing method can make this beautiful scene! i try alot of way, but i can't get such rendered result!

i render with environment map, i just get the natural skylight, the lighting is not obvious!

Most probably, the rendering method is Bidirectional with MLT and Architectural Glass Acceleration.

Not sure if Glass Acceleration existed then, but it's BiDir + MLT. Lighting setup is a simple environment map balanced with interior mesh lights.

You can find the making-of here: http://www.ronenbekerman.com/making-of-93-tram/

StompinTom wrote:Not sure if Glass Acceleration existed then, but it's BiDir + MLT. Lighting setup is a simple environment map balanced with interior mesh lights.

You can find the making-of here: http://www.ronenbekerman.com/making-of-93-tram/

I read the article awhile ago when I stumbled across it on ronen's site. Thanks for sharing that!

thx for all ur guys reply, trying on that now!

What's the story behing architectural glass acceleration? Wasn't it not working as intended for awhile?

The making of is from Aug 2010. The glass acceleration feature was still in development at that time.

I'm understanding Fruitiger's question differently than you seemingly did, Headroom

As an Indigo feature the Glass Acceleration worked flawlessly since its release date. Back then it was only for bidir though, PT support came at a later time. Exporters exposed the feature at different paces.

Note that it is not designed to work with smoothed glass shapes but glass panes, hence the "architectural" adjective.

Headroom wrote:The making of is from Aug 2010. The glass acceleration feature was still in development at that time.

That's ages ago, though it feels like the other day :S

Yup, back when I first joined Glare... I remember rendering that monster scene of yours in Welly