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Blendigo (for Blender 2.64 + ) 3.6.5.1



ALL PLATFORMS: http://www.indigorenderer.com/dist/expo ... .6.5.1.zip

WINDOWS INSTALLER: http://www.indigorenderer.com/dist/expo ... taller.exe

Changes in this release:

3.6.5.1
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* Added basic support for coating material
* Added basic support for double-sided thin material.


NOTE: This exporter REQUIRES Blender version 2.64 or newer

It also requires Indigo 3.6.5 or newer to be installed.

MANUAL INSTALLATION

Unzip the archive. Move the extracted indigo folder into your Blender addons folder.
You should end up with <blender scripts>/addons/indigo/

Run Blender 2.6, go into User Preferences/Addons, and find the Render section. Locate the Blendigo entry
and enable the addon by clicking the little checkbox on the right.

INSTALLATION VIA BLENDER

Run Blender 2.6, go into User Preferences/Addons. Click the "Install Addon" button and choose the blendigo-2.5-3.6.5.1.zip file. The addon will be installed and shown to you, ready for activation.

If you are upgrading, be sure to choose the "Overwrite" option when selecting the .zip file.

You can easily check the installed version in the Addons panel. After upgrading/replacing I would strongly recommend restarting blender.


KNOWN BUGS
When motion blur is enabled, objects with keyframes whose parents also have keyframes may have incorrect transformations in Indigo.
The workaround for this is to disable motion blur for the scene. This can be disabled by unchecking the 'Motion Blur' checkbox in the Render settings tab in Blender, in the 'Indigo Render Engine Settings' section.

Yes yes! TYVM!

Oscar J wrote:Yes yes! TYVM!

Wait until you try it before you thank me

Updated build with this:

* Added sphere primitive (Checkbox in Indigo Object Settings in Object Data)

Blendigo works with 2.65a but the installer doesn't ... it installs indigo in Blender/2.64/script etc. whereas I didn't even had a 2.64 directory.

If possible you should change the installer so that it installs Blendigo on the really last version of blender installed, not just the default repertory "2.6x".

But except this little point, so far no problem

Thanks a lot !

I can't find coating material or double sided in the blendigo GUI.

Could someone tell me where it is?

If I trust everwind above the install might have gone wrong but it seems fixable meanwhile.

It's very easy to check in Blender whether the installation process went wrong and the " old" version of the plugin is still active or the new one was installed.
I don't have access to my iMac right now ( son is playing minecraft) but will post later if no one else has posted a solution.

Start Blender and look in File-->User Preferences. Tab: Addons and look for Blendigo, which is in the Render category. That shows you the version number of the plugin. This is the same across all OS platforms I suppose.

What is different is how and where it is installed. Fortunately there is no installer for the mac.
As Blendigo is a Blender Addon written in Python, even for Windows no installer is really needed and you can load down the .zip version and use the "Install Addon" button in the lower left corner of the User Preferences.
That will put the files where they need to be. There are enough video tutorials explaining that process so I won't post that here.

I don't even use the above mentioned process. The zipped download unpacks into a folder name blendigo-2. that folder contains a file named "indigo_release.txt" and another folder named "indigo". I just move that folder into /Applications/"whatever I named my Bender Folder in the /Applications directory"/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/2.64/scripts/addons/

That may sound complicated but is pretty quick.

Once the Addon is installed correctly the Materials section amongst the usual candidates will contain "DoubleSidedThin" and "Coating"

I feel like an arse now - all I had to do was to restart Indigo.

This is coming soon to Blender: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User: ... thon_Nodes

Worth keeping an eye on! I suppose then the material system could support custom Indigo nodes?

The same thought crossed my mind when I came across this. That would in fact be outstanding! Perhaps a Wishlist thread for Blendigo is on order.

I think, that there is a lot of functionality in the C4D exporter that could also be realized in Blender.

Hi, I'm getting this error on one of my scenes using this new version:
I haven't pinned down where it's coming from, other scenes seem to work fine...

- Small request: when exporting animations, could only the meshes that change be exported every frame? It still seems as though it's exporting the geometry for every frame, which is hell for complex scenes with lots of static objects...

- When re-exporting an animation from Blender, it seems as though the existing .igs frame files get emptied but not re-written, so Indigo complains that there is nothing in the file to render. Deleting the .igs files, the temporary scene folder and the queue file fixes this, but I think it should be done automatically.

- Would it be possible to export all the animation stuff to a distinct folder inside of AppData/Temp to make finding all the relevant files easier? Right now they're scattered in between all the other stuff in Temp.

- Is is possible to have the option of deleting each .igs frame as it finishes rendering? Auto self-destruct Not sure if this is a good idea, but just thinking about space.

- Render queue is working great, though it would be very useful to be able to Shift-select multiple .igs files to delete them (for long queues).

Altogether great improvements

EDIT: Maybe it's just me, or just because I'm animating a very simple scene at the moment, but does Indigo keep some of the render data in memory between frames? It seems as though the build time between frames is much quicker... Path GPU, 30 s / frame, at the moment.

- Confirming what William posted in the other thread: Dupligroups don't work. It's not just linked objects, it's instanced groups which give Bit of a headache, as I've got some heavy groups that need instancing!

EDIT: Attached simple scene.

EDIT2: Can't seem to attach it. Will email.