Flamingo Homepage

Important Notice: Flamingo has been replaced by the new advanced renderer built into Rhino.

Flamingo nXt adds many features such as decals (a specific type of texture mapping), more advanced materials, large material libraries and also a plant generator.

• Comprehensive Flamingo nXt feature list
• Flamingo Render Farm information

• How do I use the Flamingo Render Farm?

• My Flamingo will not install on Rhino 5. Installation instructions.

• How to install Flamingo nXt 5 in a lab? Install Flamingo in a lab

• Would the existing flamingo V5 key we have also work with the Zoo? Zoo 6 is compatible with Flamingo.

• Why is my rendering slow? Click here for Flamingo performance tuning tips. A detailed article on tuning the speed performance of Flamingo.

• What does the 'source radius' do? The radius of the emitter of light, which creates soft shadows. – Jeff Taylor

• What are the settings for the best quality picture? If there were one group of best settings, there would be no need for controls to alter them.

• Where are the Flamingo NXT 5 Material libraries on my hard disk - Default materials Location

• What if I do not have any Flamingo 5 Materials in the Libraries panel? -Details here.

• Where is a gallery to post my best pics? You can submit your images to the Flamingo gallery.

• What are the differences between Flamingo, Brazil, and Penguin?

AccuStudio - Lots of free objects, materials, plants and textures.

DOSCH DESIGN - Architecture, 3D models, scenes, textures and images.

• Flamingo tutorials at www.rhino3d.tv - Free!
  • Go to Year = 2005, Month = January, to find the training videos.
• Training, tutorials, FAQs, registration, and support by forum, email, chat, or phone.
• Understanding lighting - Free!

• Where are the Flamingo NXT material libraries? How to locate the Flamingo libraries

• How do I render with light domes? In an attempt to start this page with some kind of organization I've popped the lightdome stuff onto two different pages which are linked through from the table below. Hopefully as I learn more about how to program this wiki I'll be able to make it all a bit neater. – Keith Wilkinson

• Soft GI lighting using lightdomes - Explores the use of achieving a real GI appearance to a rendering.

• More Flamingo FAQs.

These test commands are intended for internal development use, but may be helpful in some specific situations. They are not documented.

• FlamingoTestsetgammacorrection - V2 beta
  • Sets the gamma correction

• Hints and tips on rendering techniques. – Jeff Taylor
  • How to set the depth of field correctly
  • Good rendering practices
    • See the tutorials listed above

• Has anyone seen any fabric or cloth material libraries for Flamingo 2.0?