After much procrastination on our (daves) part I am finally posting autogamma script.
The script applies a colour correct with a gamma of 2.2 to every material at render time i.e textures AND flat colours.
Lastpixel works on lots of large projects with multiple xrefs being created by several staff members so to avoid problems of having to manually apply colour corrects we use this script.
We developed this script about 6 months ago and its great I leave it turned on all the time
with remove CC’s after each render (so I dont have to click through colour corrects in my material editor:) )
colour mapping to linear gamma 2.2 (dont affect colours ticked) and thats it, LWF for dummies.
Installation
Gup. files goes into plugins folder and mcr. goes to macroscript
Customize Lastpixel and place in you quad menu or whatever you prefer.
And obviously you need to install colour correct script http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/3dsmax/#ColorCorrect
It saves current setting to the scene so if you reopen the scene the same setting stills holds, will do xrefs, works with standard and vray mats only.
The script only applies colour corrects to materials applied to an object in the scene
i.e. no colour corrects applied to maps in the enviroments slots or unused materials in the material editor.
no colour corrects to textures i.e. a texture applied to a light
Dont forget to go to you max preferences and either completely disable gamma lut correction (I do this as I use Vray frame buffer all the time) or set your bitmap files input gamma back to one otherwise you will colour correct your textures twice.
There is also an override values drop down that allows you to access all the usual colour correct options where you can change the gamma etc. (and turn your whole scene green if you want:) )
Although we use this in a production pipeline and it works fine I/we (lastpixel) take no responsibility for it doing anything at all or possibly destroying everything,everywhere, USE AT OWN RISK yada yada yada…
EDIT
The zip now contains Max 9 and 2009 32 and 64 bit versions
GODDDDD We just upgraded to 2009 64bits
We really need your autogamma plugin!!! PLEASE!!!
No chance that I receive the sources compile a 2009 version
and send it back to you (Dreaming I know…)
We do have a 2009 64 bit compile version in the works (already finished) but our programmer works remotely. I emailed him yesterday asking him to email me the recompile and as soon as I get you will get it that could be today or in the next week depending on when he gets back to me so watch this space.
I forgot to mention in my previous post the gamma script doesnt hit materials that are NOT on an object in the scene i.e. it wont apply a colour correct to materials on the enviroment slot or in the material editor (but not actually applied to an object
Jeff g2 >>man that pic you got for an avatar make me larf every time I see it.
mullet, pure class
no idea what problems you get with max 2009 as we aint moved to it yet (we always got a bunch of projects hanging around that delay any upgrade) but as we use this every day and we are about to upgrade to 2009 in the next few weeks will look into any errors that pop up.
Good to give back to this forum where I have learned so much.
Lol
a mullet, a tie with a wife beater vest, and a jacket with no sleeves beat he’s a killer with the ladies, all he needs now is a moustache
Can anyone else confirm if they get an error using autogamma with max 2009 in either 32 or 64 bit
Glorybound are you getting the error with max 2009 64 bit ?
Just tested autogamma at home with 2009 32 bit and cannot recreate your error
You will need to have both plug-ins on the farm. We usually change our plugin.ini to post to a mapped drive that the whole farm can see, that way we only need to put the plu-ins in one directory.
With the error I assume this is in the maxscript listener? Sounds like perhaps the maxscript is loading in before the plug-in and the maxscript is having the error. Is this the whole message in the listener. Can someone post it here if its not?
I realize this is probebely a V-Ray only tool but I’m curious if this could be wrangled somehow to work with scanline and / or mental ray scenes / materials also?
Glorybound are you still get an error with max 2009 64 bit and if you are DaveMcD is our technical guy maybe he can help
he had the post just before your where he said:
With the error I assume this is in the maxscript listener? Sounds like perhaps the maxscript is loading in before the plug-in and the maxscript is having the error. Is this the whole message in the listener. Can someone post it here if its not?
Steveblake
no it is not a vray only tool.
It applies the colour correct (which is a separate downloadable plugin) before render time and is not dependant on the type of renderer you are using.
It works perfectly fine with standard materials. It should be fine with scanline
I dont use mental ray but I dont think it causes problems (might cause an error will check that with the lads at work on monday or just try it yourself)
Anyway why would you want to use anything other than Vray
Tdog can you copy and paste the error from the maxscript listener please. The error messagebox wont tell me much usefull but the listener should be able to tell me where the maxscript crashes.
