LWF on render farm.

[gadzooks]

I thought by using the Gama Correct color mapping that the render farm would burn the LWF to the images? Thier not for me. What am i Doing Wrong?

[Clifton Santiago]

First make sure your Max gamma settings are correct, and make sure your LWF is working on your local machine using the Max frame buffer. If that works, then there should be not issue with sending to backburner. Its all about how you save the file.

For stills that I strip render on the farm, I save as .EXR with default settings. Just as when working locally, this ensures the image will be assigned the sRGB profile such that it will appear the same in photoshop as it does in your MFB. You could do the same for animations I suppose, but if I have thousands of frames, I usually use an 8-bit format such as TGA. In that case, in the save dialog for the Render Output, be sure and uncheck the "Use system default gamma" and instead click on "Override" and set it to 2.2. This "burns" in the gamma on 8 and 16-bit image formats, making it look almost like it was first saved as an .EXR (though not exactly the same).