Banding with very small light source

V-Ray V-Ray for Maya Issues
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I’m getting severe banding when using a very small very bright light source. Is there a setting I’m overlooking that can resolve the issue?

The attached image was created by placing a single VRayLightRect above a plane. All sampling is VRay default.

Maya 2018, V-Ray 3.60.01, Windows7

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Hi,

This is actually a known issue of the V-Ray Frame buffer winch doesn’t apply any dithering to the rendered image. Saving the image to a 32 bit file and opening it in Nuke for an example will give you the right look of the render.

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Or simply roll the mouse over the values, and you will see that while the Display shows banding, the values are continuous, not stepped.