Maya Render View Issue

meanvel

I have been puzzled by this Maya 2016 bug for a while. Say I take a sphere, render it in Render View... It comes out bright and/or washed out. Then I use File>Save, and then it's fine... I pasted the saved version back on top in photoshop to show you.

I tried going into render settings and setting the output transform to raw and etc... Nothing fixes it.

It's not a big problem, because everything rendered out via batch render comes out fine, or saved from that window... ???

JohnnyRaptor

increase the size of your render view window and check if the view transform is enabled.

meanvel

JohnnyRaptor said:

increase the size of your render view window and check if the view transform is enabled.

Yep, that was it... The view transform keeps turning on when I restart. Any way to turn it off for good?

JohnnyRaptor

In preferences, under color management, at the top, untick enable color management.

But to be honest, you should keep it on since it applies linear lighting transforms to your render.

meanvel

That actually doesn't work, you have to instead install two mel scripts...

Linear lighting transforms?

//TurnOffColorMan.mel
global proc TurnOffColorMan()
{
    colorManagementPrefs -edit -cmEnabled 0;
}

//userSetup.mel
scriptJob -e SceneOpened TurnOffColorMan;

JohnnyRaptor

That script does exactly what i said

meanvel

Thanks for the help. I just want WYSIWYG for rendering out spritesheets. Tired of doing so much extra color adjustment in Photoshop.