[Mike Amos 20200501214323]

Several matte and gloss finishes end up losing their texture and appear to emit when I have not selected this. Odd. Any tips?

[Alberto Cadahia]

Hello Mike,
it is odd, indeed. Could you give us some more info about these problems?
Are you using CPU or GPU for the fire/render?
Are you using custom MXM materials or embebed Characters presets?
Could you please explain a bit what do you exactly mean with "and appear to emit when I have not selected this"? When you select the objects that have these materials assigned in Sketchup, they look like an emitter instead of showing the texture in Fire?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Alberto

[Mike Amos 20200511200844]

The material in sketchup is allocated a matte finish in one case and the other not but no complicated effect at all.

[Forum Moderator]

Hello Mike,

Could you share those the SketchUp file so we can see what's happening?

Thank you!
Fernando

[Mike Amos 20200516233415]

I have tried posting the file it is too big, I am not posting the location of an online storage site on a public forum.

[luis.hijarrubia]

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[Mike Amos 20200523112430]

Anything?

[Mike Amos 20200525175139]

Nothing?

[Forum Moderator]

Hello Mike,

I'm sorry for the late reply.

I could take a look at the scene, but, as I don't have the textures, I cannot reproduce the issue here. However, looking at the denoised images (some of them are really strange), I think it could have something to do with having changed the illumination in Multilight during the render. Currently, at least until we refurbish the Denoiser implementation, Maxwell launches two renders in parallel when the Denoiser is used; if you change the illumination during the render (which is something I like to do a lot), it's important to do it for the two passes. In fact, the most comfortable way of doing this is waiting for the render to finish, then make the changes and use the button to Re-Denoise; this button will copy the Multilight options to the two passes and calculate the denoised image.

Do you think this could explain the situation?

Best,
Fernando

[Mike Amos 20200602165326]

Not really as de-noise is not selected. I just wanted to get a start point render and perhaps spice things up later. I have to say it takes a long time to get any kind of answer here.

[Forum Moderator]

Hey Mike,

I have some images with a denoised suffix. Are you maybe thinking about a different set of images?

Best,
Fernando

[Mike Amos 20200613174238]

No, I had not assigned denoiser to on at the time. I have a difficulty with the assignment of textrues as a 'matte' finish acquiring the values of a hdri or another illuminant which is what you suggested earlier too. How do I get a material to take a matte finish?