Is Denoiser broken?

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This is the second project where I am having this issues with the denoiser render element. I get random black or very dark geometry. Mostly forest pro or railclone objects. These are 4 consecutive frames of an animation.

I’m running max 2017, Vray 3.50.04, forest pro 5.3.2 and railclone 2.7.0

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We have some similar reports and we are looking into them.

Best regards,
Vlado

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@gfa2 -- if trace reflections is off on your material, Denoiser will darken the geometry. Sometimes substantially. As Vlado said, Chaos is looking into it…

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If we have the actual scene (or part of it that shows the problem) here it might be helpful. May you send that to blagovest.taskov@chaosgroup.com? In the meantime we will try to come with a repro case here.

Best,
Blago.

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Hi, did you find a solution ? i have the same problem
Thanks,

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I think we did solve the original issue. Which V-Ray version are you using?

Best regards,
Vlado

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I believe it was 3.60.01

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Then it would be good to get me the original non-denoised .vrimg or OpenEXR files to vlado@chaosgroup.com so that I can check them out.

Best regards,
Vlado