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Upgraded from Max 2010 -> 2013, new default lighting looks weird.
Hi, for the longest time I have stuck with Max 2010, and only recently I've upgraded to Max 2013 x64. I notice that the default lights have this weird... "chrome-y" look to it, for lack of a better word. I don't know if this was introduced in prior Max versions (2011 or 2012) or if it's exclusive to 2013, but it definitely… -
Re: Upgraded from Max 2010 -> 2013, new default lighting looks weird.
You can imagine the shock I had the first time I saw this "Slate Material Editor"... I mean, I guess it isn't so bad, it's not like I haven't done node-based stuff yet... but the "switch to compact material editor" button was swiftly pressed. =P -
Re: Upgraded from Max 2010 -> 2013, new default lighting looks weird.
Yep they changed the default gamma/lut settings too. If you open your material editor and all the materials look washed out its the gamma/lut being turned on. cptSwing's suggestion should take care of it. Why they do stuff like that I'm not sure... maybe just to fool people into thinking things have changed when they… -
Re: Upgraded from Max 2010 -> 2013, new default lighting looks weird.
maybe if you saved the current configuration to your maxstart.max (was that what it was called?), and 'merged' the old scenes into a fresh one? -
Re: Upgraded from Max 2010 -> 2013, new default lighting looks weird.
Hey pior, thanks for the quick reply. Yes, that seems to be exactly it. Setting it to "1 light" seems to bring the display closer* to what I'm used to seeing all these years. I guess at some point Autodesk decided to change the default settings. There doesn't seem to be a way to change this globally, so I'll have to end up… -
Re: Upgraded from Max 2010 -> 2013, new default lighting looks weird.
You might have the "2 lights" option turned on. It's in the same viewport preference panel where selection brackets and bounding box display are enabled, and I think it's on by default in some versions of Max. Hope this fixes it! P
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