[michaelplogue]

Finally got back from my business trip, so I've been giving Beta a spin around the block. Took one of my older poser scenes, re-textured everything, and let it rip.. I found some wierd effects when I was testing to see if the transparency/clip map function was working. This first image was done with Physical Sky with Sun. As you can see, part of the image has been "tiled" over the section where the transparency has been applied to the hair (you can see her eye and head by her right cheek).



So I tried it without the sun, and got the same artifacts...



Here's the same scene with the clip maps removed...



I've tried several different things: Made a new camera, moved it to different viewpoints, recreated the background, etc. Still got the same stuff.

Any Idea as to why this is happening?

Using 1.2.1 (just downloaded everything this morning....)

[RonB]

Eek, she's starting to look like Michael Jackson in that last image...

[Thomas An.]

Clipmaps are not working very well right now. This is known:
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4100

[michaelplogue]

here's a higher res image rendered for longer (2 hrs). The samples above were done for just five minutes each. There's all kinds of freaky stuff going on here...

I'm going to have to go back to the Alpha version I'm thinking.....

[michaelplogue]

Clipmaps are not working very well right now. This is known:
http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4100

Shadows from clipmaps from the Alpha version were one thing. I'm thinking that this is something completly different. I never got these kind of artifacts before..........

I can understand not getting certian functions working (other more important problems to solve). But this seems to be going in the oposite direction.

[Thomas An.]

Hi michaelplogue,

Yes, I did some tests with clipmaps (a couple of days ago) and there are some unexplained reflection phenomena going on.

[michaelplogue]

Whew! I thought I'd done something horribly wrong. I've been trying all sorts of different things, thinking I'd messed up somewhere.

Glad I'm not the only one!

Either way, this is a major show-stopper for me. Hope they fix it soon.

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[j_petrucci]

michaelplogue, you should send that image to Next Limit team, so they can better take down the clip map problem...

[tom]

Clipmaps will be fixed soon and "known issue" tag includes all, not just the shadows.