DEV-thread - Blendigo v0.7 - material-editor-exporter

[GNUdo]

@zuegs:
under Linux in the exporter-GUI the filename of the texture is correct, with slashes (/) in the file path but previewing the material gives this error:
SceneLoaderExcep: Failed to load texture
"\home\francesco\.wine\drive_c\Indigo-07\grid.jpg" (In element 'albedo_texture', around line 34, column 13)

If I modify the filename passed to the function launchIndigo(filename) with:
filename = os.path.basename(filename)
all is working correctly.

I think this depends on Indigo and how it handles file paths, not on the exporter, in fact I obtain more or less the same error with some files in the testscenes directory.

[zuegs]

@SmartDen: , not sure about sorry, when i set green-scattering i can also see green-colored scattering from the media. Only the light that passes medium without scattering is magenta. So i think scattering color matches the color i can see from media???

And what is this?
I think it must be inversed

Hi SmartDen

Yes, but when i lower "IOR" i get this
I feel confused

[neepneep]

Is it possible to have Blendigo assign materials in the XML that translate to Blender vertex groups ? ie. so objects can be be exported and have more than one material?

[Kram1032]

I don't know, if Blendigo does it, but Wedges Exporter did it even without Vertex groups
It's done by multiple tri-sets:
tris 1-1000 have this colour, tris 1001-2000 have that colour...
I've done this once, by accident:
I've made a cylinder which had applied two Materials to it:
1 Perfect Reflector and 1 Chrome...
I just wanted the Perfect Reflector and Edited the .xml to erase the crome mat, but I've forgotten to apply the Perfect Mirror Mat to any faces -> Indigo Crashes, 'cause Chrome doesn't exist xD
Then, I found out the things, written above
That's why The Materials Tag is written in the tri-tree : Multiple Material Usage....

[zuegs]

hi neepneep, hi kram1032

For me assigning more than one material to a object works fine. I create all blender-materials I need and assign them to the object with help of the "New" button on the "Link and Materials"-page on "Edition(F9)" panel. Then in Edit-mode I use the "Assign button to assign a specific material to selected faces of my object. After that I go to Blendigo and setup for each blender-material-name the correct indigo-material. Et voilà

[IanC]

Yes, but when i lower "IOR" i get this
I feel confused

If you think about it, it makes sense. You are scattering all the green light, letting the purple/magenta light through. Since the IOR is 0, you aren't getting any refraction. Red and blue light is essentially unaffected by your sphere

[Kram1032]

IOR can't be beyond 1, I thought!?

[zuegs]

not below 1... just near to 1... in this ex it was 1.1... the ex of SmartDen it was 1.5 i think.

[zuegs]

SMALL UPDATE

- uniform sss (by SmartDen)

I changed some path-handling routines that shout give some improves for Linux systems. So I'am realy not sure if this will be an advantage or disadvantage.... perhaps better first back-up old script

Please Linux users, if some one could tell me what works and what doesn't work... also if XML-output is correct or not... thanks for all help

AND A BIG THANKS FOR ALL THE NICE FEEDBACKS

[joegiampaoli]

Ok, in linux seems to work ok, I had to change the name of Indigowrapper.conf to IndigoWrapper.conf (cap W), then pointed it to my indigo directory, and it seems to work, I'll be foolin around with it, any problems I'll post them here. Thx zuegs.

[drBouvierLeduc]

AND A BIG THANKS FOR ALL THE NICE FEEDBACKS

How could I live without that "preview" function before ?!
Well, your exporter makes the whole workflow much easier and faster.
Thank you that much !

[F.ip2]

where can i get the 0.7 test version of indigo so i can try out this exporter?

[joegiampaoli]

here:

http://www2.indigorenderer.com/montecar ... _test5.zip

[F.ip2]

I feel like a retard.

got it all.

[paulo_gomes]

hi, i've installed your wonderful script, but i've tried to create the .igi file and it doesn't. is there any trick?