Indigo Renderer Forum

Hey there everyone,
I've been working on a document to be a resource for a bunch of ways to make your renders look snappy, addressing common mistakes and problems people run into when first starting out with Indigo.

I would love to hear feedback on the quality of the pages, and any suggestions on what else to include. We're aiming for a solid 30 so there's a few more to go!

I will keep posting new ones to this thread so check back often

*update*
Missed the second page for Phong

$oup wrote:Hey there everyone,
I've been working on a document to be a resource for a bunch of ways to make your renders look snappy, addressing common mistakes and problems people run into when first starting out with Indigo.

I would love to hear feedback on the quality of the pages, and any suggestions on what else to include. We're aiming for a solid 30 so there's a few more to go!

I will keep posting new ones to this thread so check back often

I just wante to nit pick, but in saturation it's 255 rather then 256 since the range starts on 0 and not on 1.

Great manual, my only suggestion would be to try and find better images for the bump mapping page- the texture used seems a little low- resolution.

Hey thanks that's good info, I'm sure I've missed one or two of the little technical things around the place.
Cheers

Nice paper,a good reference for every newbie

Referring to your full PDF, the generated bookmarks are sometimes not Headlines only, but also the text beneath them...


I think there is a misleading information about the Use of IES:

You tell the user to take "a small, single plane mesh"

So far so good, but in your example you use a quad polygon! Indigo only supports triangles, so on Export your mesh gets divided and bang, you end up having 2 light sources instead of one!

Good job $oup, makes learning Indigo way more friendly !

Another nitpick: the vocabulary used for black materials and their counterpart is confusing: better refer to absorbed light rather than to reflected light, because albedo and IOR are not correlated.

Great articles Soup, we'll be putting these onto a tutorials page in the near future.

Another suggestion- in the image on the beveling tab, the beveling is pretty excessive.

Hope you don't mind me posting suggestions here, I just want to help you improve the manual.

Thanks Soup for your service: that is pretty cool!
Can i have some specifics about font, font size, length of the "contruction lines", distance from the borders etc, for I am writing some tuts for the italian guys and it would be nice to have the same layout.
OR you could send me the template (only openoffice format allowed, though...)