bug with brightness bellow 1 in matte and net rendering

[RSF]

Hello
Can someone confirm if this?
I have a plane with a box on top and a light source.
I want the plane to be matte (-1) and the box to cast a shadow on this matte.
If the shadow brightness is bellow 1 they disapear in all render nodes but not in the workstation that submited the job and where the manager is located.
If brightness is 1 then all machines render the shadows.
Can someone confirm this bug??
Thanks

[jacksc02]

what version of vray?
also are there any maps in the scene? maybe an ies light?

[RSF]

Hi.
No materials.
I just made a matte plane (receiving shadows that affect alpha) and set the brightness to something bellow 1.
Put a box on top and a light source and send it to backburner.
Only this machine render the shadows, the nodes don't.
If brightness is 1 all node render the shadows.
Can someone verify this?
I don't know what's causing this...

[Candelero]

Is it something connected with the "." "," problem ?
I will check that out too.


Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[Candelero]

Well, exactly as we supposed ! The problem is not in V-Ray, but that
"." "," decimal sign. Make sure all your render nodes are set with "." [dot]
Then the rendering is going fluently with brightness of the matte set below 1.0.




Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[RSF]

Hi.
I forgot about that issue.
Nevertheless I already changed de decimal separator but the problem persists.
Did anyone reproduced this error?
Thanks

[Candelero]

Hm, strange
I could make it wrong and correct via BB. The difference was only the [dot].

BTW, which BB is this ?

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[RSF]

sorry...BB?
Bounding Box, Brigitte Bardot??

[Candelero]

BB = supposed to mean BackBurner.


Here are some other V-Ray / MAX abbs
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DR - Distributed Rendering
BB - Backburner
IR - Irradiance
LC - LightCache
AA - Antialiasing
QMC - Quasi-Monte Carlo
CM - ColorMapping
...
...
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List of some PhotoShop abbs
Mostly used when talking about layer adjustments:

LV - Levels
BC - Brightness / Contrast
HS - Hue / Saturation
CB - Color Balance
CV - Curves
SC - Selective Color

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Feel free to add more to OUR V-Ray language


Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[RSF]

ah..
I'm using BB 2.3

[RSF]

I tried opening max in a node and netrender from there.
The node renders fine and all others don't, including this worstation that was working in the previous situation.
Any ideas?

[Candelero]

ah..
I'm using BB 2.3

I tested it in BB 3, MAX 8, SP3

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[RSF]

humm...I'm a bit afraid of moving to max8.
What's worst is that max8 can't save as max7....only 3ds

Anyone willing to check this issue on max7? Please?

Thanks

[RSF]

Ok...got it
Well...forgot that I have two users in the windows login
Changing the decimal separator in the correct one solved it.
Sorry...I'm not as fast as I would like hehe

[Candelero]

Good to hear that !

Best regards,
nikki Candelero