Chaos Corona Forum
Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] I need help! => Topic started by: lightwriter on 2024-05-09, 11:15:30
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Hi there!
I added a Corona Sun to my scene; however, this time is not working as it should.
At 1,0 intensity (both in sun settings as in LightMix), the light is barely noticeable. If I increase the LightMix intensity to 100, the light is clearly visible, but it doesn't look like sun light; it resembles more ambient light.
What's going on?
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The only things that can play a part are:
Tone map settings, you didn't show us those, the exposure could be way down
Something is blocking the sun, this could be a partially transparent object, or a volume such as fog. In fact, we know the curtains are blocking the sun, so are they set up to allow enough light through? Are the interior lights working normally, what happens if you hide the curtains, that would be how to test if the curtain material is to blame.
The Sun size was changed from the default
Hope this helps!
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The only things that can play a part are:
Tone map settings, you didn't show us those, the exposure could be way down
Something is blocking the sun, this could be a partially transparent object, or a volume such as fog. In fact, we know the curtains are blocking the sun, so are they set up to allow enough light through? Are the interior lights working normally, what happens if you hide the curtains, that would be how to test if the curtain material is to blame.
The Sun size was changed from the default
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your help!
Here are the tone map settings; the exposure is at 0,0.
I searched for something blocking the sun...I've found nothing.
I've hidden the curtains - you can see the strange result with only the sun. The glass is working properly, since the environment lighting works as it should.
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Isn't the Highlight Compression operator set to a bit too aggressive value? What happens when you set it to 1.0?
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Isn't the Highlight Compression operator set to a bit too aggressive value? What happens when you set it to 1.0?
I normally use that value. Here is with highlight compression ser to 1.0. The difference is almost 0.
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What happens if you let only the sun enabled? Not in Ligthmix but for rendering, with only the sun light enabled? Maybe another light is absurdly strong and MSI is toning down every light in the scene?
Global Volume Mtl by any chance?
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Hi,
Can you please send us your scene via ticket so we can have a quick look?
https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new (https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)
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Isn't the backplate blocking the sun?