New SketchUp Page on Indigo Website

Ben Nolan of Glare Technologies has revamped the SketchUp page on the Indigo Renderer website. It's a really nice improvement. You can find it here.

Indigo 2.0 Stable Released!

From www.indigorenderer.com:

I'm pleased to announce the release of Indigo Renderer 2.0 stable.

The Indigo 2.0 series has been in Beta for the last 3 months, and has recently reached a point of sufficient stability to be released as a 'stable' version.
Indigo 2.0 is the first commercial version of Indigo, and represents the latest results from over 5 years of development.

The Indigo graphical user interface (GUI) has been rewritten to improve power and ease of use.
Interactive tone mapping, layer blending etc.. is now possible with the GUI.
Major new Indigo features include motion blur, easy network rendering with a customised render node GUI, and full Unicode support.
Sub-surface scattering has been sped up, and aperture diffraction (glare) has been improved.

The Indigo exporter plug-ins have also been greatly improved, and now come with easy-to-use installers. Indigo exporter plug-ins can also now read and write Indigo material files, allowing artists to make use of the Indigo material database (http://www.indigorenderer.com/materials/), a free online repository of high-quality Indigo materials.

The Indigo 2.0 stable version sets a solid foundation for further improvements due in the 2.2 series, including large speed-ups and more realistic materials.

You can download it from:

http://www.indigorenderer.com/download

Blog still alive...SkIndigo 2.0

It's been a long time since I posted anything, mostly because there hasn't been anything too exciting to post. I've been very busy getting SkIndigo 2.0 ready. This has involved lots of tweaking, and bugfixing as well as making everything 100% Mac compatible. Things are working quite well, I might say. Even though Indigo 2.0 is not officially announced yet, the beta is now working very well on both PC and Mac. I encourage anyone interested in rendering to check out the most photorealistic rendering engine available (and SO easy use). Indigo 2.0 (beta) and SkIndigo 2.0 can be downloaded for free right here.


Unfortunately, my other projects have taken a back seat right now, but I'll get back to them eventually. Bye for now!

Contest Winner: Modelling a Panton Chair with Subdivide and Smooth

Here is the tutorial video as promised!

SDS Tutorial Contest Ends

Congratulations to Takeshi Hashimoto for winning the SDS tutorial contest with his outstanding tutorial of how to accurately model a Panton Chair using the plugin. He presents a very interesting workflow that might give you some new ideas on how to put Subdivide and Smooth to use. Great work Takeshi! Unfortunately, I am not quite ready to post the actual tutorial video yet. Hopefully tomorrow! Here is a screen grab in the meantime.

New SketchyPhysics Render Test

I've been doing some work on SkIndigo animation. With SketchyPhysics3 RC1, CPhillips included an API that allows to export to a render engine. Great job Chris! Implementing the animation export was a breeze! Thanks!

Check out this animation of a Rubik's cube (scene by Kus)

New Profile Builder Tutorial by Eric Schimel

Eric Schimel has a cool SketchUp blog that is focused primarily on kitchen design but he has also posted a few video tutorials and plans to make more. He recently posted a great video tutorial of Profile Builder that shows some of the basic functions and how the plugin can be used in kitchen design. Check it out!