Indigo 4 public beta is out ...

http://www.indigorenderer.com/node/2016

I've tried the new Indigo renderer and rendered off the benchmark scene.

facts and figures for render are  Render time 3m35s   1391.31 s/px and   5.195 Ms/sec






Top pic is screen capture to log the stats and bottom pic is the rendered output.
I have an EVGA superclocked GTX970.  

Homebuilt computer - Windoze 10, INTEL i9 9900 k @ 5.1 GHz, EVGA RTX 2080 TI XC ULTRA, 16GB 3100 MHz RAM, Asus  Maximus Hero XI motherboard, Sound blaster Z series. iClone6 & 7 Pipeline, Crazytalk 8, Crazytalk Animator 2, Facefilter, Pop video 3, Hitfilm 4Pro, Cubase 8.5 Pro,

Works with the current iClone plug-in, but no GPU!

Really fast on GPU with demo scenes, will try with some old scenes whenever I have the time!

I tried an old scene with speed trees and it wouldn't even convert, although I could render it with the old version of Indigo. I've found in the past that Indigo chokes on scenes with speed trees and that seems to still be the case to even a greater extent it. The benchmark scenes are relatively simple.

I had trouble with the RT beta in that it remained at 3.8, whereas the RL license doesn't work for the full version. I do hope though that we can at least benefit from any improvements with an updated RL Indigo version. I wouldn't even mind if we could just use the regular RT and full Indigo versions for those who use Indigo not just for iClone.

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I have never used the stripped down RL version of Indigo RT - the full version works perfectly with the RL plugin, and I can also use it with SketchUp and a few other packages.

I haven't downloaded the V4 Beta version yet, too many other things to get finished at the moment.

Gerry

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System: Win 10 Pro (21H2), Asus X99-E WS, CPU i7-5930K -3,5 GHz, 32 GB DDR4 2666-16 RAM, NVidia GTX 1080 Ti GPU - 11 GB VRAM(Driver Studio-536.99), Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB SSD, 6 TB HD storage.

@Gerry: That's good to know; it was never made very clear at the time.

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Unless RL changed the whole export process from Iclone to Indigo, its still not useful for animation projects.
Integration with hosts appz is really terrible with indigo products.

Octane 3 is coming out with a $49 upgrade price. RL should really invest their time with octane.

Following keenly.

Did you know?: Indigo vendor leans towards AMD GPUs whereas RL's iClone 6 leans towards NVIDIA GPUs.

This conflict of strategy is interesting and is probably the biggest indicator that RL needs to consider a more strategically aligned renderer (can I dream of Octane?) 

Just arrived in this forum but since some time a hobbyist in Indigo Renderer and analyst in 3d tech.

In fact this statement is not accurate: new Indigo 4.0 approach pure GPU rendering asking for just OpenCL 1.1 compatibility (current OpenCL spec are at 2.1), meaning almost any modern Nvidia, AMD and even Intel GPU or any other compatible hw are usable.

In Indigo forum you did find a lot of developers testing on Nvidia GPU, so there is no AMD related bias.

Looking at the results and experimenting myself with test scene I can say the GPU renderer part it's really fast (for an unbiased renderer!) and got beautiful results in just minutes instead of dozen or hours.

NVIDIA works better with CUDA.

Indigo documentation says you stand to get better results with AMD cards..

Compatibility doesn't mean optimal performance!

Am just stating FACTS not opinion. Cheers!