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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] General Discussion => Topic started by: mediopolis on 2014-03-23, 19:42:24

Title: Distributed Render Gamma problem
Post by: mediopolis on 2014-03-23, 19:42:24
I am having a problem on distributed render. When i render just on my machine the lighting looks natural, but when I enable DR, it's as if the gamma goes down to 1.0 and its very dark on the render.  Anyone run into this issue?
Title: Re: Distributed Render Gamma problem
Post by: Coronaut on 2014-03-23, 21:04:15
Check slave machine gamma settings. It should be same as on workstation.
Title: Re: Distributed Render Gamma problem
Post by: mediopolis on 2014-03-23, 21:12:51
i did that. and i rendered a standard scene on every node. All are 2.2
Title: Re: Distributed Render Gamma problem
Post by: Coronaut on 2014-03-24, 00:20:26
Even Affect material editor, color selector, input? Did you check some other scene? Did you check Input in bitmaps, maybe you left override on some texture.
If everything fails try deleting gamma settings from 3dsmax.ini it should look something like this(not actual writing this is example)
[gamma]
LoadEnableState=1
CorrectColorPickerState=1
CorrectMtlEditorState=1
InputGamma=2.200000

edit:
path to 3dsmax.ini USER\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\20xx(version) - 64bit\enu\
Title: Re: Distributed Render Gamma problem
Post by: borisquezadaa on 2014-03-24, 02:09:24
In MaxScript listener you can type "GetMaxinifile()", that outputs the directory of the elusive deep buried maxini file.
Title: Re: Distributed Render Gamma problem
Post by: mediopolis on 2014-03-24, 02:25:57
it does not affect the materials in the editor. Bitmaps are fine.  I am going to delete the ini's see if that helps.
Title: Re: Distributed Render Gamma problem
Post by: Coronaut on 2014-03-24, 09:57:49
Well you need to make exact gamma settings as on WS, if you have checked affect materials, picker etc. you need to do same on slave, sometimes ini file can be bugged, and max don't want to overwrite it, that's when you need to delete gamma manually.