Final Gather

Incomitatum

I have just got Max 2008.

The setting for Final Gather and Global Illumination are slightly different from what I am used to. Regardless, even when I use some of the default profiles, I get weird artifacts.

My scene looks like I ran it through the Crystallize filter in Photoshop. and there are black pixel-clumps everywhere.

I have seen what happens if you have the photons turned down before, you get dots. This doesn't look to be the same thing.

I have tried looking online, but can't find others with this problem?

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

aesir

experiment with the sliders and you'll figure out what they all do to an image pretty quickly.

Incomitatum

Well I thought so too. I do not intend to be unexplorative. It seems though that no matter what I do, the crystalline nature, and the black pixel clumps exists in some form or another.

It might be I just need to set it on its highest setting and go to bed to night and see if -that- helps.

ivars

Are you letting the render finish? It sounds like you're just seeing the first pass with FG-tiles. The render will smooth out once it's complete.