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I am having strange things happen… Let us say I have a scene with a white max environment and a v-ray sun, using a vray camera. If I render the scene should I get a white view? No matter how I adjust my camera everything is still a gray.

It isn’t my monitor because by dialog background is white. I am running this test because my v-ray camera has never really matched real world values. I have an exterior scene, using a v-raysun/sky, and a v-ray camera. If I set my vray camera to something like ISO 100, shutter 1/500, and f/stop 8, I should get a pretty good exposed scene. I don’t; my scene is black so I have to drop my shooter down to something like 35.

My materials are good and my v-ray settings are good, so what is happening? I have MAX gamma at 2.2 and v-ray at linear 1,1,1. I save my image out as a vrayimg and I check the curve or sRGB.

The below screen grab is showing my shutter speed at 80, which might work for this scene, but seems awfully low.

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maybe you have somehow activated the exposure controls under max environment settings, its worth a look.

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I was playing with that the other day, but I am sure I turned it off. I doubt that is it because my camera has never really worked the way I thought it should (real world). I just played with it until it looked good. When the scene is don’t I’ll check out the exposure.

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nope. MAX’s exposure was off.

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is it only this scene or any new scene?

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looks like you have affect background checked in your color mapping settings. that will cause what you are experiencing.

V Miller