DOF issue

[tmbarker531]

Hi, I recently updated my copy of max to 2017 (despite many recommendations not to), in general things have been going ok, but for some reason when i turn on depth-of-field under the sampling menu in the vrayphysicalcamera the image renders completely black. I've never experienced this problem before when I was using 2015. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Thanks

[kosso_olli]

Possibly the aperture map feature is checked, but no map assigned? In the Bokeh section

[tmbarker531]

I'm not using any Bokeh effect and the bitmap aperture box and blades box is unchecked

[vlado]

Can you post a scene that renders in this way?

Best regards,
Vlado

[tmbarker531]

Sure, I attached a new basic scene I made, loaded the vray defaults and quickly adjusted a couple of settings and the same problem happened- renders fine at first but after DOF box is checked it renders black.

Thank you!

DOF_test scene.zip

[matanov]

If you insist on using the VRayPhysicalCamera in max 2017 (they have a PhysicalCamera there), you have to switch the exposure control to VRay exposure control in Environment and Effects to avoid problems.

It could be a bug though, so thanks for the pointer!

[tmbarker531]

Thank you! That was my problem. Yeah, I've been using the vrayphysicalcamera because whenever I use the max physicalcamera and select it in the scene my interface immediately freezes for a few seconds and I often would have to restart max to fix the issuse...