3ds Max Viewport displaying incorrect textures

joshmtyler

Why is my baked AO showing up as though I cranked the levels all crazy?

The texture is perfectly smooth but when brought into MAX...this is what I see. I usually test in UDK but UDK keeps freezing my computer. SIGH!!!

Acid_Wire

I get this same issue all the time. If it's the same thing, just adjust the gamma inside of Max.

joshmtyler

That doesn't seem to do anything.
It just makes it brighter or darker.

Acid_Wire

In that same gamma window, there should be an option for "Input Gamma" or something?
Don't have Max open atm

joshmtyler

There isn't much there.

Synaesthesia

Disable Gamma/LUT Correction. This has been part of Max for quite a while and it's essentially useless for our purposes.

joshmtyler

But when I disable it, everything goes black as shit.

rollin

if that happens then something is wrong anyway. check why stuff is so dark when LUT is disabled

joshmtyler

It seemed to only be black for a little bit and now everything is fine. Buh. Years working with these programs and there is always something. XD

poopipe

Synaesthesia wrote: »

Disable Gamma/LUT Correction. This has been part of Max for quite a while and it's essentially useless for our purposes.

please don't just turn it off because you don't know what it's for

Eric Chadwick

http://wiki.polycount.net/Gamma

Synaesthesia

poopipe wrote: »

please don't just turn it off because you don't know what it's for

If he doesn't want the appearance of clamped levels on his AO map, the easiest method of dealing with it is to disable gamma/LUT.