What is killing my Glossy Reflections?

[JeffG2]

Hi -

When my rendering gets to it's final rendering pass, my glossy reflections and specularity take a tremendous hit.

Everything looks ok visually with the samples on the pre passes (building light cache, etc.) But during the final rendering the nice looking glossies get muted to a rather dull version of their previous strength - perhaps a quarter of the glossy level I see in the pre passes.

Any ideas?

[nils_p]

Interpolation?

[JeffG2]

I'm not using interpolation.

[jacksc02]

Jeff, can you explain your scene a liitle more?
Maybe post your settings and an image to look at?

[JeffG2]

I found the problem.

I'm using Solid Rocks and it was automatically turning on "Store with Irradiance Maps" on my area light - killing my specular.

[jacksc02]

glad to hear its solved.

[raymarcher]

why does it disable the specular when using that option? I had dthat problem too one time.

[Subburb]

Hi !
I'm having a look at this point right now.
I tell you informed

[aphexx]

hi, same here:
there is a light, that only affects specularity above the lava stream.
when i use "store with irradiance map" in the light, the speculars are ignored.

[jozef_chvojka]

Hi,

are you using Irradiance map for rendering or Brute Force?

If using BF then no speculars and no light with this option turned on is visible in the image I think...

.j

[cecofuli]

Same problem here mmm...
Any idea or solution?

[raymarcher]

Same here, I know this problem since long

[vlado]

This is to be expected; only the diffuse contribution of the lights is stored with the irradiance map and any hilights will be ignored in this case. Only reflections will be visible.

Best regards,
Vlado

[cecofuli]

Thanks Vlado,