3dsmax Viewport Lighting Error

TWilson

Basically I work on a scene for a while. Open it up one day and the lighting is twice as bright. It blows out a character so much I can't see the wireframe.

One solution offered is to create a new scene and reset, then merge in your broken scene. This is some sort of a fix.

Is there a better way to deal with this? Seems to happen frequently enough to me that there must be a solution out there.



I've not been a hardcore max user for a little while here. This bug is new to me which is to say it could have happened any time in the last 5 years. From what I can tell asking around a lot of people put up with this one though.

MoP

Looks like your Environment ambient light setting is being increased for some reason.
Hit 8 to bring up the Environment settings dialog and see what colour the ambient is when that happens. It should be black by default.

I don't think this has ever happened to me though.

Popeye9

You could have your gamma and lut setting enabled which will change the material editor and how they are displayed. You can check if that in the customize

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>preferences--->Gamma/LUT tab.

hope that helps

TWilson

MoP you are correct sir.

my co-worker just found that as well.

I think it's some kind of side effect of the DirectX Shaders.

Mark Dygert

I've seen that happen when switching back and forth between MentalRay and Scanline. Kind of annoying...