Indigo Renderer Forum

Hi Blender and Indigo users,

this is a project for a indigo-material-editor for Blender . And its

STILL IN DEVELOPEMT AND NOT A OFFICIAL RELEASE

Everyone that needs a working exporter for Blender please consult Download section on the indigo-website.

All c&c are welcome and please report all bugs in this thread, thanks.
Also please post source modifications here, so i can implement them to the download-source.

Note: YOU NEED AT LEAST BLENDER V2.43RC3 TO WORK
copy the Blendigo script ".py" file to the "blender-2.43\.blender\scripts\" directory.

As for other exporters you need the "Indigowrapper.conf" file (http://www.myfile.ch/site/download.php?file=983665) that includes the indigo-render-directory-path placed in the "blender-2.43\.blender\scripts\bpydata" directory. I wasn't able to test Linux stuff, so don't expect that it works sorry (perhaps some one could fix it )

Also there's a "preview" button for materials that throws a small material-preview-render. For this you need to copy the "Preview" directory from the blendigo ZIP into the indigo-directory.

As mentioned this is in development... there are some points that are not implemented yet.
Fixed:
- a bug with blend materials - sub-materials are sometimes missed in export
- "indigowrapper.conf" accepting spaces in path name
- work-around for ortho-matrix-limitation
- bug in rotation matrix
- fixed possibility to remove texture
- absorbtion color preview inversed
- new material-type "External" that allows to include an external XML file (for test)
- "save IGI" button
- sss-type uniform (by SmartDen)
- removed surface compensation for lights, gain-value is equal to gain in XML, use "efficacy" feature instead
- fixed "null" material export when used in blend-material
- indigo primitives sphere and plane (meshname must contain ".sphere" or ".plane")
- added linear tonemapping scale (you must deactivate auto-exposure for this)
- changed F-Stop formula (perhaps wrong )
- fixed misstyped matExponentPathCB (by manuel)
- absorption color inversion on GUI removed (by SmartDen)
- max. turbidity to 20
- added exponent for linear tonemapping
- fix slowing down of GUI while working on big meshes
- dupliverts
- phong exponent up to 1mio
- fixed animation export
- replaced ImageSelector with FileSelector for better performance
- fixed bug when object is visible on more than on layer
- fixed file paths when located on different drives
- add copy/paste functions
- background color picker
- popup for material preview scene file
- compatibility to indigo v0.7t7 (many thanks to SmartDen)
- set max value for phong exponent and glossy-transparent exponent to 1000000
- finds preview scene file with new ".igs" and old ".xml" file extension
- additional rendersize-options 150%, 200%
- ignore objects without faces
- primitive sphere diameter fits inside mesh bounding-box
- added exponent for unform SSS value
- F-Stop accepts float values
- support for array modifier
- add world dimension factor
- added capability of different preview scenes by menu (by BIGFAN and DaveC)
- general tidy up of GUI and tooltips (by BIGFAN)
- super sample (by BIGFAN)
- all preview files use same material name to make new preview files easy to insert (By DaveC)
- updated preview scenes and added "IMPmatdb" preview scene
- added "&" to "launchIndigo" function to detach Indigo from Blender under Linux (by GNUdo)
- material conversion: converts blender material to indigo material if no indigo-material definition is found or you press the "convert" button

ToDo:
- linux compatibility
- extended support for mediums
- extended support for SSS
- epidermis features

For all qestions please just ask

and that it looks like: (thx kepler for the nice preview scene)

I'm very sorry, but the links only give a nearly blank page...

Edit: Ok, new Links are working^^

Works Great !



edit: How can I make colour absorption greater than '1' ?

edit: edit: I just noticed the 'gain' tab right next to it

Exactly where should I put the *.conf file?

Edit: and where goes the .py file? I've copied it in the script folder of Blender, but I don't know how to use it...

Edit2: It WORKS!!! Fantastic!!!

fantastic work zuegs!
thx

my doesnt work!
i have win blender rc3 and put this script in scripts folder. when i select the blendigo python script it says that i have the wrong version???? whats up.?

hi tungee,
yes, script is designed for v2.43 but should work with your v2.43RC3 too, just ignore the message

Is there any Material Limit, yet?
I've used ~ 5 mats and when I activate SSS on the 5th and change the SSS colour, I get
NameError: Global Name "matSSSrgb" is not defined...

And for now, it only searches for indigo in C:\\indigo_07/default-mats.xml

But my Indigo is in:
C:\\Pogramme/indigo/indigo0.75/testscenes/default-mats.xml...

hi zuega the scripts fail trotzdem.
here is the console message:
Compiled with Python version 2.4.
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Checking for installed Python... No installed Python found.
Only built-in modules are available. Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily.
BLENDIGO v0.7t5 BETA 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1319, in ?
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\
Administrator\\Desktop\\blender-2.43-RC3-windows\\.blender\\scripts\\bpydata\\In
digoWrapper.conf'

I was trying to do a blend, but the exporter put this: instead of:

@tungee
have you copied the "IndigoWrapper.conf" file in the "blender-2.43\.blender\scripts\bpydata" directory?

@Kram1032:
theres no limit for materials... please try again... you need for each indigo-material a place-holding blender-material (which defines the names)

@neepneep:
i missed this, sorry, will fix it !!! thx

[EDIT]: fixed "uv" version is up, download from first post, thx neepneep.

now everything is fine .
Thanx zuegs for da tips and the new exporter!

wow great !

first bug ;
if i select a sss color the script crashes.

That's what I meant, but I've used 3 SSS and it crashed at the 3rd...