matte with colored shadows

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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Hi,

When I’m using a matte the colors of my shadows gets really weird compared to a straight rendering.

I’ve made a test scene and this is how it looks when rendered, there is a blue dome light and a yellow spot light. The colors of the shadows are as I would expect.

This is the same as above except it was rendered on a white background and saved to png, then in photoshop I’ve added the same grey background, and now the shadows looks very wrong.

Anyone???

/Thomas

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Is the comping being done in 32 bits or 8/16? If its less than 32 then thats sort of normal… U cant reproduce render in 8/16 bits from passes.

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It’s 16 bit.. But i’m not reproducing a render using render elements, this is simple matte/shadow

/Thomas

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Hi Thomas,

I am not able to replicate this on my tests.
Would it be possible to see your scene and the problematic .PNG file?
I suppose that the alpha channel makes the differences in this case.