Material Blur

V-Ray V-Ray Common Render Theory
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So the material blur’s default is set at 1. It seems like it should be more like 0, and sharpness added in post? What’s the though behind blurring a material? For my work, it’s mainly wood-grain laminates without much (if any) bump to them.

Thanks.

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Are you talking about the bitmap blur? That’s just the way it’s been implemented in Max and been like that since version 1.
Use the VRayHDRI bitmap loader instead.

There’s a thread here somewhere where Lele recently did a bunch of tests with differen’t blur and max bitmap loader vs VRayHDRI bitmap loader

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Thanks. Yes, bitmap blur. I’ve been using it at the default of 1 forever, but someone recently told me to set it down to like .2 Sounds like it has more to do with antialiasing than anything. But since I don’t do animation, it seems fine to me at 1 and resembles what I used to get with my camera back in the day. Just thought I would check.

I’ll look for Lele’s post on that.

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This is the thread:

Interesting read!