How do I get rid of the banding in the image below??? It is specially visible in the darker areas of the image - I have tried numerous settings for antialiasing, lights and QMC.
Image below is a region from a 3500px rendering (note theres a gap between ceiling and wall). I am using a simple setup with Vray lights in window openings (glass hidden)
Vray 1.46.10 and Max6.
Current settings:
AA: Adaptive subdiv 0/2 (also tried Adaptive QMC for AA)
GI: 1st - Irrmap / 2nd Lightmap
IRRmap: Medium / Hsph=50/Interp.=40 (tried higher as well)
Lightmap: Subdivs=2000 / pre-filter=20 / Sample size=0.005 / Interp.samples=20
QMC sampler: Adap.am=0.85 / Noise.thres=0.005 / Min Samples=16 / Global subdivs=16
hehe. must suffer from an over active immagination hehe kidding glad to hear your not having problems with vray. nice lighting. sorry to hear about your monitor. hope it led a full and productive life. give it a good burrial (dont forget the flowers)
Well I can see really heavy banding, it looks dreadful. If I were your client I would be VERY upset, in fact, I would take it that you were trying to insult me personally.
Sorry, just looked again and there’s no banding on my (CRT) monitor.
not only is there no banding, this must be one of the best image Ive ever seen… The simplicity… the depth… I can just keep staring at it and see new things all the time…
oh wait I just looked at it from another monitor… I dont like it anymore.. hehe j/k
thats a typical lcd/tft panel problem
so far there are only a few panels on the market that are able to approximately display the same color range as (good) crt monitors
thats THE major reason why color critical work (prepress f.e.) is still done on crts
most problems occurr when you have gradients of similar color and luminance (f.e. the default title bars of windows going from medium dark blue to medium light blue)
you can simulate the gradient in photoshop to see if vray is the reason
just sample the two extreme colors and create a gradient over a similar width my guess is you will have similar banding
cya,
Mike
ps: the only method i know how to get rid of banding is reducing the number of colors and dithering the image to simulate the lost values - probably not what you want
other than that - try to show the project on other monitors
Lots of LCDs are only capable of 18 bit color (262144 colors) and would show banding in images like this. Even if the display properties are set to 24bit.
This is exactly the same problem i had when switching from the 1.09x builds to the betas. I kept on sendig vlado renders of this one scene where the banding was really bad in a softly lit gray area, thinking it might be an authorization issue. He politely repplied that there was no banding.
That’s when I discovered that the old crt im using here, can’t actually display the full colour range. Time to get a new monitor
(no kidding)