Dark and pixelated texture in 3dsmax 2014

Lily Lynch · May 2016

Hi guys,
I'm currently working on a hand painted house and I'm having troubles with max view port.
My texture looks very blurry and dark.
I have been doing research and it is not a gamma issue. I have also downloaded the script nitrous set texture which didn't correct the issue. I have tried enabling materials : realistic materials with maps, but there is still no changes.

Thanks for your help!

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ft/07xmx1idbc1l.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/c9/rp9hwknuxpan.png

Synaesthesia · May 2016

I know you said it's not a gamma issue, but the way those darks are clamped in the cavities looks like your copy of Max has Gamma/LUT enabled. Try disabling that and see if it improves the look.

Lily Lynch · May 2016

Thank you so much! I got confused and thought the gamma settings needed to be set to 2.2, my bad.
You have saved me a lot of trouble!
Thanks again.

musashidan · May 2016

A Gamma seting of 2.2 is for when you are doing physically based offline rendering(Vray/Mentalray/etc) using a linear workflow, but a lot of people disable it for general work when not rendering. Strange though, as having it on should make things brighter, not darker.

You painted this texture yourself? Did you create it in an srgb document?

Lily Lynch · May 2016

You painted this texture yourself? Did you create it in an srgb document?
Yes for both :-), and thanks for the explanation, at the end disabling gamma fixed the problem.

Dark and pixelated texture in 3dsmax 2014

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