Need Help with the G-buffer and Color Mapping

[josiah]

My current character animation uses HairFX, which of course is rendered in the G-buffer. I am using exponential color mapping and have everything set perfectly.

The problem is that the hairFX specular highlight's are turned "grey" by the color mapping.

Does anyone know of a way I can prevent the colormapping from affecting the hairfx render or otherwise brighten the specular?

Thanks for any ideas!

[vlado]

You will probably have to composite the hair, if you don't want it to have color mapping; you may bring this question to the developers of HairFX though, since the hair renderer seems to always clamp colors to white.

Best regards,
Vlado

[josiah]

Thanks Valdo, I will do that!

[appius]

plz, let us know what they reply!

[josiah]

Ok, here is what they said:

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I'll talk to Chaos about this, if it is related to the lack of support for the Real Colors g-buffer channel in the hairfx Renderer, this might be corrected in the next 1.6 version.

Ivan Kolev
Dimension Design Animation Group
www.ddag.org
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Great bunch of people there at Dimension!