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I'm trying desperately to make a bright orange transparent material like a car indicator plastic cover, but either end up with a dull colour or noise that doesn't clear up. Has anyone got any suggestions or links to a material?... or is there a better way in Maxwell 2.0? I've got 30 minutes to work it out.

Thanks.

Try this approach with an emitter:

http://resources.maxwellrender.com/search.php#id=5154

I don't know if this will help but I was having similar problem with dull colors, whites looking gray, chromes looking gray and so on. I was using a 1500x750 hdri image for lighting. Through hours of trial and error I finally figured out that a 3000x1500 hdri image corrects the lighting problems... now the whites look white, chromes look chrome and transparent materials look as they should...

Is there some explanation about this (the size of the HDRI image influencing the render colors)?

micheloupatrick wrote:Is there some explanation about this (the size of the HDRI image influencing the render colors)?

I have not experienced this as being true. I have however, found that the quality of the HDRI makes a huge difference.