Indigo Renderer Forum

Hi everyone,

Thanks for sending in the ndas, it's great that you're happy to help out Indigo build better software.

At the moment - we're working on the getting the new gui for testing, we hope to have it out shortly.

We will be distributing with you the following:

* MacOS 32 bit build
* Windows 32 bit and 64 bit build
* Linux 32 bit and 64 bit build

The new gui is a replacement of the existing indigo gui, and is written in wxwidgets and uses lua internally.

Our goal is to "Make Indigo friendlier for new users and be a seamless part of experienced users workflow".

In particular:

* Provide a nicer interface for rendering
* Build a nice ui for tonemapping, light layers and other post-processing functions
* Make it easier to start network render jobs and send jobs to render farms

Thanks for being so patient - the new release should be out in a few days.

As for the mac build - does anyone currently use an Indigo exporter on their mac? What exporters work properly for os x macintosh at the moment?

Ben

thank you ben, you got me really excited by now! cant wait to test the new gui.

benn wrote:As for the mac build - does anyone currently use an Indigo exporter on their mac? What exporters work properly for os x macintosh at the moment?

there is a mac version of Cindigo, and i believe it works quite well (at least no one complains about it).

Cindigo Works great, the only thing it actually lacks is a way to start the render automatically.

Blendigo works great, just without auto starting and preview rendering..
c.

I'm going to try Cindigo with Indigo thriugh Darwine in the meantime that we wait the betas so i can also test the exporter for Cinema 4D.

yes Blendigo has been working great, as carbon says.
will there be a 64 bit mac version in the near (beta testing period) future?

yes, the 32bit OS X release confused me, if your releasing only for intel macs, then all of your target base is 64bit, and also all intel macs can do sse3, so yay

eman7613 wrote:yes, the 32bit OS X release confused me, if your releasing only for intel macs, then all of your target base is 64bit, and also all intel macs can do sse3, so yay

Must agree with this. Got to start somewhere though I suppose. But eventually there will be no point to maintaining a 32 bit OSX build.

Ready to take off.

Hehe, my mac is an old 32-bit macbook core duo, so I've been targetting myself - once I understand how to build in 64-bit I'll be sure to add it to the list.

Hi, Benn.
Do you have some more snapshots of the Gui?
I mean some "apetizer", you know what i mean. [/i]

AFAIK core 2 duo is 64 bit, and Leopard runs completely in 64 bit

pixie wrote:AFAIK core 2 duo is 64 bit, and Leopard runs completely in 64 bit

benn wrote:my mac is an old 32-bit macbook core duo

the core duo is a 32-bit processor

I'll upgrade to a macbook air or macbook pro at stome stage, with a 64 bit processor and cuda support.

I have a recent Imac 24inch w/ 4gigs ram and 3.06ghz dual core cpu, running leopard 10.5.6.
Ready to do some benchmarking and speed test renderings! (oh but i wish i had a mac tower... )