Bump mapping makes objects look faceted

[Alex_M]

Great. How do I download it? I log in with my username at nightlies.chaosgroup.com but the "Latest Builds" folders are all empty.

[Morbid Angel]

Great. How do I download it? I log in with my username at nightlies.chaosgroup.com but the "Latest Builds" folders are all empty.

you need to write to chaos support to update your access rights.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

I am getting all sorts of weird things with normal maps and i also still have issues whe i set the bump map to high value it always does a hard edge when lit from the side...on the lates vray

[Pixelcon]

I am getting all sorts of weird things with normal maps and i also still have issues whe i set the bump map to high value it always does a hard edge when lit from the side...on the lates vray

Same. I just can not get normal maps to work "properly" in Vray. It's been like this for years.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Please check my post here

http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...l-map-problems

This needs to get fixed quite badly because in max 2017 you can no longer use standard normal bump whan renderign with vray.
You wont even be able to see the normal bump on the list of the general maps rollout 

[Jiri.Matys]

Maybe someone said it, but do you put right gamma in bitmap loader, when loading normal maps, if you are using linear workflow?

[hoch5]

Like Jiri wrote.

When you are using linear workflow bitmaps get loaded at a gamme value of 2.2 usually. But for normal maps, as much as I understood it, vray expects a gamma value of 1.0. So when you are loading normal maps you might set the input gamma value to 1/2.2 manually wich equals roughly 0.4545...

Doing that, I did not see anymore problems regarding normal maps.

Still getting bad faces on regular bump mapping with high settings on vray 3.40.2 though. But that image from 3.45 nightly looks promising

[mohammadreza_mohseni]

When can we expect next service pack?

[Zdravko.Keremidchiev]

Unfortunately we can not provide a time frame for the next SP release. You should check regularly on our website.

[jp3d81]

here the same. I can´t use normalmaps with displacement in subdivision mode.
It´s faceted. If i use 3d mapping in displacement it looks right.

[Jiri.Matys]

I dont know if this is related but try this:

in max 2017 with vray, make a simple sphere primitive (dont change to editable poly) and hit render. After render change segments of the sphere. It makes sphere faceted and completely wrong even in viewport.

Its really weird. And I try to do this with scanline renderer and its ok, do this only with vray!

[LudvikKoutny]

I dont know if this is related but try this:

in max 2017 with vray, make a simple sphere primitive (dont change to editable poly) and hit render. After render change segments of the sphere. It makes sphere faceted and completely wrong even in viewport.

Its really weird. And I try to do this with scanline renderer and its ok, do this only with vray!

If i remember correctly, it was already discussed previously, and conclusion was that it's Autodesk's bug, not Chaosgroup's.

It kind of makes you wonder how is that even possible. Why would anyone touch sphere primitive's code

[Jiri.Matys]

Its do this only with vray as renderer, with other not. And happened with all primitives (I try only three, but I think that).

And Autodesk dont repair it even with SP2, right?

[Vizioen]

Any news on this? Kind of bugged out with the whole faceted, sharp shadow bump thingy

[vlado]

The issue from the original first post is long solved. I haven't looked at the rest of the posts, as I got totally confused due to multiple people talking about different issues.

Best regards,
Vlado