V-Ray Material Issue

[max_ortiz]

I'm new to V-Ray and what I'd like to do is to increase the color of my custom leather material. I used a generic material and loaded a brown leather image and its corresponding bump image. The material looks bland and dark. In 3DS Max I increased the "Output Amount" on the same texture and was able to brighten up the dark texture without having to use a bright light to increase the color. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would assume that there's an equivalent parameter that is comparable to the Output Amount in 3DS Max.

[Alex_M]

So what exactly is the problem? It seems that you already figured it out yourself. I would do exactly as you did if my lighting was correct but the texture was darker than I would like it to be.

[hermit.crab]

Use the 'Output amount' in the plugged texture itself (available both in the Bitmap and VRayBitmap node)?

[max_ortiz]

Use the 'Output amount' in the plugged texture itself (available both in the Bitmap and VRayBitmap node)?

I'm not seeing what you are describing. Attached is what I can see on the bitmap parameter window.

[max_ortiz]

Ok. I just looked and found what is comparable to the "Output Setting" in 3DS Max. I tried it and it works equally as effective. I found the setting under V-Ray's Bitmap setting under the "Color Space" dropdown. The name of the parameter is called "Custom Gamma Curve" I would assume this is what you were referring to? Anyway, this is exactly what I was looking for and it works like a charm.

BTW, another V-ray technician rep[lied to me via email and suggested wrapping your texture in a Simple Mix texture. The "Multiply Result" value is the same as "Output amount".
For fine-tuning the texture output, you can instead use the Color Correction or Spline and Bezier Curve textures.

I haven't tried that yet but will experiment with that recommendation just to compare the results.

I'm really starting to enjoy V-Ray compared to my 2016 version of Mental Ray.

Thanks for all the help to the V-Ray team, much appreciated.