Max 2010 Lighting Issues.

Grobi

I'm having some problems with the lighting in Max 2010. The problem being that everything appears to be way too bright.

With no lighting within the scene and all the settings at their default stasis, this is what I'm getting from a standard render;



The render looks the same with a skylight within the scene too.

The funny thing is, the model looks fine in the view port, just not when rendered.

This is making my ambient occlusion maps look all screwy, does anyone know the solution here?

Thanks.

Ark

Do you have 100% self-illumination on the material?

Grobi

Nope, it's at 0. It's just a standard diffuse material applied to the model.

THE 5

I think there can be many reasons.
The Gamma/LUT correction usualy let thigs appear brighter.

Ark

Have you tried deleting all the lights and then re-creating them and re-rendering?

Grobi

The Gamma/LUT correction was disabled but it's not making a difference and there aren't any lights in the scene, it's just using the default global lighting.

Ott

Press 8. What is the Ambient color set to?

Grobi

I've tried having the ambient colour black, white and in-between and it makes no big difference. I've also messed around with the tint, all it does is make the object appear darker which isn't really helping the texture.

Thanks for all the help so far guys by the way, I swear I never had this problem with Max 9...

animax

Check out the "Hardware shading" in viewport configuration.Press Shift+F3 to toggle on/off the hardware shading.In my case, if Ambient occlusion is turned on in hardware shading it makes the scene brighter.Try it.

Otherwise, try applying the texture to another object.If it comes all right then check the hat's object properties vertex color display.

Grobi

Ah, I've found the solution! It was within the exposure controls in the environment tab;



I changed the setting from what is seen here to not having any exposure control and it's working like a charm. Thanks for the help guys, you've been great!

Just out of curiosity, what do the exposure settings control exactly?