Trying to render black floor, keeps rendering grey?

Trying to render black floor, keeps rendering grey?#355806

By O2b4wln - Wed May 09, 2012 9:25 pm

- Wed May 09, 2012 9:25 pm #355806

Howdy folks,
I'm trying to render a black floor with a roughness of 9 with emitters but I keep getting the result as grey or a dark grey. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but could someone point me in a direction that could enlighten me.

Thanks,
O2b4wln

Re: Trying to render black floor, keeps rendering grey?#355808

By David Solito - Wed May 09, 2012 9:57 pm

- Wed May 09, 2012 9:57 pm #355808

with a roughness of 9 its a kind of reflective surface. Did you have an environement light?
Perhaps its the fresnel effect that make your color lighter.
Did you have an image?

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Re: Trying to render black floor, keeps rendering grey?#355819

By O2b4wln - Thu May 10, 2012 5:59 am

- Thu May 10, 2012 5:59 am #355819

The emitters are the only light I have, I've set the EV to 0. I even created a new black surface and applied a black leather mxm material and I still am getting a grey surface. I'll post an image as soon as I get to my desktop.

Thank you.

Re: Trying to render black floor, keeps rendering grey?#356777

By Richard - Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:27 am

- Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:27 am #356777

Mate a roughness of 9% is fairly smooth and reflective. Have a look around blacks with such reflection will be light as they are reflecting so much of the available light.

Try using the Lacquer gloss preset in the plugin - this will serve better.

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