Pink reflections?

[jim mann]

I am putting to gether some shots for an office interior. It is only early stages but I wanted to do a quick test render to show the client the viewpoint that we are working toward. Everything is coming along fine apart from the reflections which have a definite pink cast to them. There are no lights, settings on the material, environment settings or raytrace/refract settings that have anything pink or red in them. Does anyone have any clues as to what is happening and as to how I can rectify the problem.



Thanks in advance

Jim

[natty]

Hey Jim ..

are you using Anisotropy.. ? and which version of vray?

[jim mann]

Hi Natty,

The glass material is a Vray material set to Phong with no anisotropy.

I am using Max 6 with Vray advanced 1.09.03r

[yage]

maybe your fogcolor not definetly white?
or a red box anywhere?

[jim mann]

maybe your fogcolor not definetly white?
or a red box anywhere?

No, these were the first things that I looked out for. I have tried recreating the materials, putting green tints into every setting I can find and even merging all objects into a clean file and setting up the Vray render settings from scratch.

I wondering if maybe it is a problem with the geometry? I will loo k at rebuilding the glass to see if that makes a difference.

Jim

[eran]

Maybe it's because you have green in the reflect color of your glass, try setting that to a grey value. This setting has a opposite effect from what one, or at least I, would expect. I'm sure it's logical, but i don't get it

[jim mann]

Eran,

Whilst not quite the solution, you did prompt me to go back to the materials and try that out. It helped, but what seems to have solved it was to make the glass diffuse colour darker. The brighter that was, the pinker it became. Though why green tint would give you a salmon pink result?

"How does it work"

"I don't know...but it does!"

Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated.

Jim

[RErender]

I have noticed that sometimes when refraction goes bad it's reflections will be the complimentary color. I have come across it a few times with translucent materials.

[J_Bug]

Try the original material but change the Energy Preservation to the oposite of what it was.

--Jon