Indigo Renderer4.0.66 / 4.2.23 RC

Indigo Renderer is a feature-rich software application that integrates professional tools for enhancing photographs, in order to make them appear more realistic. It comes packed with plenty of advanced options and configuration properties to tinker with.

Customizable installer and user-friendly interface

The full package includes plugins for 3ds Max, CINEMA 4D and SketchUp, in addition to file type associations and program shortcuts. Any of these components can be excluded from setup.The GUI may seem overwhelming to inexperienced users, but it's actually pretty easy to get around. You can get started by importing Indigo material files, adding mediums and section planes.

Customize a wide range of advanced settings

It is possible to pick objects, configure image settings when it comes to the width, height, resolution, supersampling factor, aperture diffraction, tone mapping, white point, and compositing, along with render options regarding the render mode, glass acceleration, foreground alpha, halt time and SPP, GPU acceleration, and so on.The light layers can be blended by tweaking each color channel, gain and temperature. What's more, you can resort to network rendering, populate a queue with multiple render scenes, as well as examine log details. Objects can be edited in properties at any time. You can pack or unpack Indigo scenes and materials, as well as reset the layout settings.

Configure program options

Indigo Renderer lets you display a watermark, open the render saving folder without leaving the interface, enable the default scrollwheel behavior, use the network manager and set the host name, modify OpenGL preview properties when it comes to rendering with textures and wireframes, and more.

Evaluation and conclusion

The program used a decent amount of CPU and RAM, had a good response time and ran smoothly in our tests, without causing the operating system to freeze, crash or show error notifications. In a nutshell, Indigo Renderer provides experienced users with comprehensive features for simulating the physics of light to obtain realistic images.