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Indigo is a free unbiased renderer for the major apps and now has a plugin for cinema 4d, i really don't know too much about it apart from the fact that is renders in a similar way to the maxwell renderer

Give it a try out and let us know what you think of it. I am not 100 % sure but i think the plugin only works with C4D 9.521 though the indigo program is itself a standalone application

http://homepages.par...amy/indigo.html

[Billabong]

I gave it a shot, but had a problem with it rendering my image, actually it wouldnt render it at all, it would always render some image that came with it. Probably missing a step or two somewhere, but it really hasn't impressed me yet, but it is free, so there's not to much complaining i can do

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have you tried the exporter plugin for C4D ?

here is my first test, been rendering for 17 mins, OK it is not brilliant yet it needs much more rendering and i really don'y know how to use the program !!

 indigotest.jpg (65.46K)
Number of downloads: 290

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Well here is a better version. i stopped it after 7 hours however i took a long break and am not sure at what time it reached a reasonable level of convergence

Now i see a problem the sunlight is not coming in at the angle it would have if this was a C4D render with a sunlight infinite light and i don't yet know how to bring out the darker areas..how to do more bounces and tone mapping

This is raw Indigo..no post


 indigotest2.jpg (31.19K)
Number of downloads: 235

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Billabong, on Apr 22 2006, 03:52 PM, said:

I gave it a shot, but had a problem with it rendering my image, actually it wouldnt render it at all, it would always render some image that came with it. Probably missing a step or two somewhere, but it really hasn't impressed me yet, but it is free, so there's not to much complaining i can do

have a look at the indigo initialization file, it is set to render the dof test file, when you export you c4d scene you create a file say c4dtest.xml

So now change the ini file to load this at startup

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It seems that the plugin has 2 .cdl files, if you use C4D 9.1 then go with the defaults, if you use 9.521 then remove the original cdl file and rename the 9.521 one from cd_ to cdl

you will see these in your plugins folder

[osvaldit0]

I think I will keep my final render for now...

[3dtodd]

Thanks for the link. :)/>
The renders look fantastic on their site. I hope I can pull the same quality out of Indigo. The sense of realism is very strong, like Maxwell as you said.

[bootz]

i agree with 3dtodd

[mike30]

Thanks for the Link :D/>

[shaddam]

looks impressive

gav

[rat4in]

cool

[Erpan]

Whooa, I never heard this plugin, looks cool.

Thx for the link :D/>

[sacx]

i don't like it at all

[Mr.Elu$ive]

impressive? I hope that was a joke. I personally think indigo sucks, especially if this took SEVEN hours to render... this is yet another reason why vray = win

[3DIcE_Q]

But how is now ? I don`t know how to use it.. It have been improved i guess

[SFX]

I have not looked at indigo for quite a while, maybe time to d/l the latest version

[3DIcE_Q]

Yes also i have found another renderer which seems powerfull i`ll make a new thread on it.