colour probs

[t3dm]

Hi All,

right, this maybe a Linear workflow thing.. but will explain my problem first.

for an accurate exterior i am having major problems with having great GI and exposure settings, but way too light material and bitmap colours, having to use very dark (guessing which i dont like!) colours to compensate... confused as reflection and refracton colours are affected too, moving from 0-255 is not reacting in a linear fashion.

I use a 20" lcd, no LUT gamma in max, use vray sun and sky (sun at 0.01) vray physical camera (f.5.6, iso 200, shutter 30) and gamma corrected colour mapping (1.0,0.454,1.0)

as i have said, works really well for overall look and feel apart from the colours which i have to darken considerably....

not as much of a problem in interior jobs that we do...

any comments, helpers..

http://picasaweb.google.com/touch3dm...68153806272306

[Neilg]

Re: colour probs

no LUT gamma in max,

and gamma corrected colour mapping (1.0,0.454,1.0)

Start using it then, because i'm pretty sure its there for the gamma corrected workflow.

[studioDIM]

If you haven't watched my tutorial on the vray sun+sky+physcam i'd suggest you do that (in the tips & tricks section).
At the very least, you won't feel that alone in the darkening of colours, and you might even find there's a viable reason for it

Of course, interiors CAN be brighter than exteriors, as that helps light distribution.

Lele

[t3dm]

Re: colour probs

no LUT gamma in max,

and gamma corrected colour mapping (1.0,0.454,1.0)

Start using it then, because i'm pretty sure its there for the gamma corrected workflow.

i have looked at this! i have now, got max gamma 2.2, affect colours unticked biutmap input 2.2 the rest as standard. have gamma colour mapping and now i get high contrast images with highly saturated colours...

before i was working without max gamma, using gamma colour mapping, and for interior work, it was working quite predictably with colours.


if a client asked for a particular colour of carpet or finish i found it easy to sample in photoshop and put in a rgb value in max, getting a predictable result....

studio DM, downloaded one video but dont have the correct codec... what codec do i need????