Wrong Gamma

[glorybound]

I swapped to BF to see if it was a IR issue. So, I guess we ruled it out. I am restarted MAX, so I can't check on the release now, but I will as soon as I can. I do know that it is the latest downloadable version.

Ahh sorry!
Ok, will make some tests here, i hope to be able to reproduce this.
Can you specify the V-Ray build that you are using now?

[glorybound]

I am running 3ds max design 2013 and vray 1.30.01 - I restarted my workstation and it didn't fix anything so, it is a slave thing,

[glorybound]

and it is my main workstation buckets that are rendering different (thanks to VRayDRBuckets). Rebooting MAX didn't help so, now I am going to reboot the machine.

[glorybound]

now, I have rebooted everything, and I can't get rid of it!

[glorybound]

It seems if I lower the resolution (for speed) and let it complete its render (even if I see the issue), it'll render correctly the second time. So, the restart button might be working, but you have to let it complete the render first (makes sense).

[tashko.zashev]

Hi Bobby,

Do you have this issue only with this scene?
Probably the time between the renders is not enough to reset/clear all data on the slaves.
Do you use BF +LC for the latest renders?

and it is my main workstation buckets that are rendering different

This is very strange, the different buckets should be from the slave machines.

[Macker]

I had this issue too, on a previous project. I ended up doing exactly what you've done and switch to brute force which still didn't solve it, though I've not managed to replicate the problem in any other projects since. I do seem to vaguely recall doing some tests and it transpired that it might have been the HDRI causing it as the issue didn't happen with a VRay Sun - though whether this was the case or not, I can't garuantee. Have you tried that?

[tashko.zashev]

Hi Macker,

I tried to reproduce this here but with no success.
If you manage to localize the issue please send us a scene file to test in our environment.
The mail is: support@chaosgroup.com

[glorybound]

if you search for dark buckets you get a lot of post about the issue. If I can narrow it down, I'll post a follow up.

[Pixelcon]

edit: incorrect info

[glorybound]

What's incorrect?

[Pixelcon]

I had posted but it turned out I had missing plugins on the slaves which was causing geometry not to render. I had at first assumed it was the problem relating to the thread's topic. I'm still having the issue of differing gamma across the slaves, but not in this instance.

[glorybound]

I see. Yes. I am still having this issue, but it's not constant. My current project was acting up, but system reboot fixed it.

I had posted but it turned out I had missing plugins on the slaves which was causing geometry not to render. I had at first assumed it was the problem relating to the thread's topic. I'm still having the issue of differing gamma across the slaves, but not in this instance.

[glorybound]

I am still having this issue. Here is a screen shot, and it's always my main workstation's buckets that are dark.

[cadmonkey33]

I've had similar issues. Usually turns out to be a bitmap path problem, but once it was because i unintentionally had 2 daylight systems in the same scene. I've no idea why the slaves rendered different to the workstation, but removing the 2nd daylight system fixed the problem.