Wrong Gamma

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Did u use GI and DBR? If so then one of slaves did not get texture map of GI and rendered without it.

[joconnell]

try blow away 3ds max prefs dir and see if that helps.

Dmitry I owe you a beer for that one - I'd loads of issues over the past day or two with scenes randomly changing it's output and it was exactly this. You've saved me another day of cursing.

[glorybound]

Dmitry I owe you a beer for that one - I'd loads of issues over the past day or two with scenes randomly changing it's output and it was exactly this. You've saved me another day of cursing.

Where is the 3s max prefs dir? This issue is killing me! I am going to miss a deadline today because it happened again. I ran 3-4 tests successfully, cranked up some settings and resolution, and came in with dark buckets. The darker buckets are always my main workstation. HELP!!! Rebooting the main workstation seems to solve the issue, but it's unpredictable. I left last night thinking that I should reboot, just in case, but things were going well with the tests, I didn't.

[joconnell]

On my windows 7 machine it's in C:\Users\ - your login name here -\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2012 - 64bit\enu

[glorybound]

All the content in the ENU directory?

On my windows 7 machine it's in C:\Users\ - your login name here -\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2012 - 64bit\enu

[joconnell]

That's all your max prefs alright. It loses a lot of things when that goes like your keyboard shortcuts, ui and so on. I'm not sure exactly what part of it does the damage to your gamma so do a backup first.

[glorybound]

YUP! it resets everything

I rebotted, rendered for about an hour, and then I start seeing the dark buckets. So, I wiped out the preference folder (backed up first) and I am running it now. I'll report back to see if the problem is fixed. I can imagine it's only a work-around, and will happen again.

[joconnell]

Yeah - it's made a few other things in my copy of max go a little odd so I think I'll be doing a full reinstall at some point soon.

[glorybound]

nope. It didn't solve my issue

[joconnell]

Ugh. Max is a pain in the ass some times.

[glorybound]

OKAY! I am going crazy. I am rebooting everything now. It's not just my main station; this time it's a slave. The difference is very subtle.

[glorybound]

update... it is only my main workstation rendering out differently, and it's still happening. Now, it might be the only one doing it right, or the only one doing it wrong. Having said that, I have my secondary bounce, which is LC, at .8. Could this be the cause? My primary is BF.

[Laserschwert]

Are you using any bitmaps to drive your lighting/reflections? For example a skylight or a reflection/environment override?

[glorybound]

I am using an HDRI in a vraydomelight

[glorybound]

I am wiping MAX off my machine and reinstalling it. Wait a pain!!!