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Preview has pink tint
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:22 pm
by claus
When rendering in V2 I get pink tints in the preview window. It has to do with emitters, however I cannot figure out what's wrong. It happens with all my old scenes and even new ones created from scratch...
I would have posted a screendump but I can't figure out how to attach it..
Edit:
Thanks Maximus,
Image link:
http://pict.com/expo/2906726/91a52d6ae7
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:24 pm
by Maximus3D
Use this site to upload and then one of the links it provdes for board posting
http://www.pict.com/
/ Max
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:33 pm
by yolk
go to the maxwell render tab and uncheck the box (_)hello kitty lights
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:46 pm
by m-Que
My guess would be: LOTS of multilights.
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:14 pm
by Mihai
Are you using any mxi emitters with the mxi created in 1.7?
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:43 pm
by claus
I got this answer from support:
Yes, this is a known issue.
It is not a malfunction of your system or a bug in the software, but a known limitation of the new MultiLight system. In fact, having a more similar preview would make the MXI file much bigger in disk space and Ram memory, and would be worse for users, so we got a nice middle point.
This difference is not appreciable in the classic Intensity MultiLight neither with MultiLight disabled.
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:42 pm
by cgbeige
ew. That's hardly a viable middle ground. It's completely unusable for my scenes, and I'm using intensity only multilight.
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:27 am
by Bubbaloo
I'm rendering an intensity ML right now and preview is perfect. 1 Emitter and HDR Environment
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:17 am
by Mattia Sullini
It just happens with very strong emitters.
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:30 am
by claus
I simply don't understand why the preview has been downgraded, in my renderings it's utterly useless and I have to wait for the next sl update to see what happens. I would certainly call this a bug!
Claus
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:28 pm
by Mattia Sullini
Or at least could be given the choice between low/high quality preview.
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:49 pm
by Brett Morgan
Are your renderings turning out pink? I would think after a few SL iterations you would get a general idea of how your final output is going to be no?
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:39 pm
by Mattia Sullini
Yes, but the pink preview hits the full funcionality of multilight.
If you cannot perform fine adjustments on the preview image, you would need much more time to find the right mix for the emitters.
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:35 pm
by Mihai
Could you upload a simple scene where this happens? What are the "very strong emitters" exactly?
Re: Preview has pink tint
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:13 pm
by Mattia Sullini
Very strong means absolutely unreal values, like thousands watts.
Multilight made me used me to such bad habits
it is progressive with increasing emitters' strength.
It seems that it does not happen with 1 single emitter.
Begins to show with two or more when the intensity is raised high.
With 4-5 emitters the preview shows a bright pink-purplish checkerboard that might make the preview completely unaffordable.
This is obtained by a scene i am working on, eliminating most of the elements.
http://rapidshare.com/files/295603586/Test.zip.html