Wierd Blown out normals in Max 2011's RTT

Ryan Smith

Can anyone tell me what setting i need to switch to fix this problem? The normals are waaaay screwed. Everything is pretty much on default settings.


EDIT: Something i've noticed, it says in the render window it's at 16bits per channel when it should obviously only be 8. Perhaps this is what's effecting the outcome? I don't know how to switch this though, in the save settings i have it checked to 8bits per channel

EDIT: Fixed problem.... if anyone has this problem in the future it was caused because i had a shellac material applied to the diffuse... When i removed this shellac material and replaced it with a standar material it fixed the problem.

Eric Chadwick

So a Shellac on the low-res mesh causes this? Or Shellac on the high?

aniceto

the frame buffer will always either be 16 or 32 bits/channel, it doesn't mean you have to save it at that format.

Ryan Smith

eric - The Shellac on the high poly will do this. I had a shellac material with 2 raytraces with the specular power and gloss set at different values.

aniceto - thanks, that clears that part up. i was confused about that.