Add a C4D Infinite Light and point it in the direction that you want the sun to face.

If the directory could not be automatically detected, set it to the main C4D directory.

There are both 32 and 64-bit versions of Indigo for Cinema 4D available.

When starting the first export process, a dialog will show up asking to select the directory the Indigo.app is located in.

These tags extend the functionality of certain Cinema 4D objects to include Indigo-specific functions.

Use in conjunction with the Cinema4Ds camera settings such as focal length and aperture.

The normals of the object should be pointing in the direction you want the light to enter the room.

Because there are no point lights in Indigo, on export these special Cinema4D entities are translated into a mesh and act exactly as if you made a light bulb mesh and applied an emitting material to it.

It can be found by selecting an Indigo material and looking in the Attribute Manager, or double-clicking on the Indigo material.

This works identically to the Cinema 4D command, except it exports using Indigo materials and launches Indigo to render the scene.

Indigo for Cinema 4D will convert all C4D materials automatically on export to Indigo, however using this function will give you more control over the material settings.

Indigo instances are faster to render than Cinema 4D instances (which arent real instances but are copies).

To use this function follow these steps: Select the texture tag of a polygon object that has an Indigo material applied.

This Indigo for Cinema 4D function allows you to bypass this limitation.

Just select a texture tag with an Indigo material applied and click Plugins Indigo for Cinema 4D Generate UVW Tag.

However, there are some Indigo specific render settings that can be accessed via.

Indigo Render. R11 - R12: Render menu Render settings General Set the Render Enigne to Indigo Renderer.

R13: Select Indigo Renderer from the Renderer drop-down in the top left of the Render Settings window.

After installing Indigo and Indigo for Cinema 4D, open up Cinema 4D and construct a simple scene.

This scene has two windows for light to shine in, and two spheres to test materials on.

To render the scene with Indigo, select Plugins Indigo for Cinema 4D Render with Indigo from the menu, which will start the standalone Indigo application.

Notice it is very plain and noisy, there is no need to render it for more than a few seconds as you can see right away that it needs work.

First, we will light it with the sun and sky model, which is the easiest and quickest way to add light.

Cinema 4D R11.5