Drastic difference between renders in Vue and Maya

Kyle_butler

I've created a terrain using Vue.
I exported it to Maya and rendered using mental ray.
To my surprise, I got really different results from what I was originally getting inside Vue.

Then I rendered it in 3dS Max (also using mental Ray) to check if the file was corrupted, and achieved similar(but somewhat more washed out) results to Vue's render.

I tweaked a lot my render settings and got nowhere.
Why my Maya scene looks so bad?

Original Vue Render


Maya


3DS Max

Froyok

Isn't this a gamma problem ?

Octo

Can you export lights and atmospheric effects and such from vue?
If not you can't expect identical results without doing it yourself..

Joopson

I wouldn't say it's a drastic difference. Maybe sample the blue shadow colour from the Vue render, and use that as a colour for an ambient light. That would get rid of the dark darks, anyway.

JR

Yeah, I don't think is so different as you say. I grabbed your Maya render, took to Photoshop and applyed match color (using vue render as sample) and get this:



It's almost the same thing.

Kyle_butler

Froyok, Octo, Joopson and JR, thanks for your suggestions.
JR, it is very similar now. Thanks for taking your time to edit it.
Maybe what was bothering me was the fact that in Maya, the colors were warm, which in my mind, hurts the aerial perspective's "bluish" atmospheric effect.
I'll render as is, and then color correct it.