Crashes on Startup

[jim]

Hello,

I get a window that says "indigo has generated errors and is being closed. A log file is being generated."

Any idea how to troubleshoot and fix this?

Windows 2000.

[suvakas]

What version do you use?
See if you have any lights in the scene and when using some light for the sun be sure to enable skylight.

Suvakas

[jim]

I downloaded the latest stable release - 0.6


It's the first time I've ever tried Indigo. It won't even start successfully. I couldn't get to the point where I could load or open a scene.

[SmartDen]

Show the log file. It could be related with your Windows version

[manitwo]

Hi jim and welcome aboard

I couldn't get to the point where I could load or open a scene.

erm ... do you expect a gui where you can load a scene? No gui - indigo is a pure renderer.
First, look at your inifile. "Scenfilepath" should point to scene which should be rendered -> then double-click on indigo.exe
I recommend this tut (don't know if you work with blender but this tut is also good to understand how indigo works):
http://www2.indigorenderer.com/blender_tut

[jim]

Hi jim and welcome aboard

I couldn't get to the point where I could load or open a scene.

erm ... do you expect a gui where you can load a scene? No gui - indigo is a pure renderer.
First, look at your inifile. "Scenfilepath" should point to scene which should be rendered -> then double-click on indigo.exe
I recommend this tut (don't know if you work with blender but this tut is also good to understand how indigo works):
http://www2.indigorenderer.com/blender_tut

Uh, yes I did expect a GUI. Let me try it... Ok, the scenefilepath points to the testscenes directory and the ior_test.xml file. So...?

Here's the log.txt file.

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scene file path: 'testscenes\ior_test.xml'
Using working directory path 'testscenes'.
created world.
Loading Scene 'testscenes\ior_test.xml'...
Camera: white balance = D65, using CIE XYZ chromacity (0.312730, 0.329020)
Using Reinhard tone mapping with pre_scale=1.000000, post_scale=1.000000, burn=0.800000
-----------ObjectTree::build()-------------
9 objects.
calcing root AABB.
AABB: (-10000000000.000000, -10000000000.000000, -10000000000.000000), (10000000000.000000, 10000000000.000000, 10000000000.000000)
max tree depth: 8
reserving N nodes: 9(72B)
total nodes used: 19 (152B)
total leafgeom size: 27 (108B)
finished building tree.
Finished initialisation
RendererSettings::getInstance().bidirectional: 1
RendererSettings::getInstance().metropolis: 1
Starting threads... (num threads: 1)
Starting thread...(RNG seed=1171469834)
------------------------------------------------
Time elapsed: 0s
Done 0.00000 mutations  (0.00000 mutations per pixel) 
mutations_per_sec: 0.00000 (1.#INF0 micro-secs / mutation)
doing initial warmup...

[CTZn]

AABB: (-10000000000.000000, -10000000000.000000, -10000000000.000000), (10000000000.000000, 10000000000.000000, 10000000000.000000)

Correct the scale of your scene, it is currently 20 millions kilometers big...

[jim]

Still no. My main purpose for trying Indigo was for SketchUp rendering. I have the exporter, and it works. Here's the log file from an attempt at using the exporter.

scene file path: 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.JIM-A8DRKWAU7FZ\Desktop\indigo_06\untitled.xml'
Using working directory path 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.JIM-A8DRKWAU7FZ\Desktop\indigo_06'.
created world.
Loading Scene 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.JIM-A8DRKWAU7FZ\Desktop\indigo_06\untitled.xml'...

The error window is a Windows error dialog, not an Indigo dialog. See the following screenshot.

http://jim.foltz.googlepages.com/screenshot.jpg

?

[OnoSendai]

What version do you use?
See if you have any lights in the scene and when using some light for the sun be sure to enable skylight.

Suvakas

Jim, please follow Suvakas's advice and check u have some lights in the scene