Wierd lighting in 3ds max 2012 render window

Jessica Dinh · Oct 2011

Hey guys, I've just started using 3ds max 2012 and I've noticed that my renders look different in the render production window. It seems as if max is trying to fake some lightsource and is baking a permanent shadow on one side of my object no matter how I turn it. Is there a way to turn this off, make the render settings more like how it is is max 2011? I'm gonna put my object in udk anyway, but this is just annoying me haha. I've tried to change some options in the render settings window, but i'm not really finding the solution. It's probably something simple :P

SpeCter · Oct 2011

Sounds like the Gamma/Lut "problem" just turn it of in the viewport options and it should be ok.

Jessica Dinh · Oct 2011

Thanks SpeCter, although it isn't a Gamma/LUT problem - under Viewport Configurations>Lighting and Shadows, I had to change Illumination from 2 lights to 1 - laame, this problem kept me guessing at settings for like half an hour haha..

Mark Dygert · Oct 2011

Yea I think they changed the default light setup from 1 to 2 and Gama/LUT to on in 2012. If you get it set how you want in a default scene and save that scene as maxstart.max to your 3dsmax/scenes folder it will load each time you start max.

Jessica Dinh · Oct 2011

Ohh ok, thank you Mark!

Wierd lighting in 3ds max 2012 render window

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