problems with hdri
 

trying to get some renders right, why is the color so cloudy in this hdri render?

im trying to get a real sharp relfection

http://www.3d-dan.com/render1.jpg

its your final gather i think the blur is artifacts try googling about final gather.
you have to increase rays or mess with the min n max radius.:beer:

i increased the rays to 500
and i made the min radius .3 and the max 8 and still no difference(looks worse)

Dude this is a common prob in MR basically because theres not enough literature on it. But...

The min and max radius settings are pretty much 10% (roughly) of your scene scale. Best way to work it is to put in a plane and scale that to your scene size, then take the settings from that. So if its scaled to 100 x and z, your min radius would be 1 and max 10.

These are pretty much the right numbers. The max radius is done first out of them then this way you calculate the min radius (10% of max) otherwise without these adjustments Maya is automatically figuring it out hence the dirty appearance. This will result in a cleaner render. You can lower the figures but they have to have the 10% difference of the two, you can then increase your final gather rays. This SHOULD work, honestly.

Cheers
Jay

yes, like J says, its correct.
another way to calculate your min/max
is to create a distance node and find the length of your car, then divide that number by 10, for max, then dive that result by 10 again for min.
also, when min/max are left at 0, MR automatically calculates the min max, and u can see its numbers by changing the progress message to detailed message in the output window.

a lot of great info, thanks guys :bow:

update, alright im still doing something wrong.

i measured the car exactly using the measure tool and it came to be 24.xx
so then i set the min and max to .2 and 2.4x

rendered and i got this

if i put the settings any lower maya freezes under render

looks like the car is driving through a disco

Turbo Dan

Can you give me a run down of whats in the scene please.

Cheers
Jay

Turbo Dan anychance of providing the scene file , take the car out if needed just slip a cube in it's place scaled to the car dimentions, so we can see the full settings, would be easier then to hep you out with the scene to render with exact settings you have got

just a thought on a way for us to help

does this help at all?

http://www.3d-dan.com/help.jpg

this is what i get when i render that with thoes settings

ya know last time i saw that effect was when i was messing with a GI render,

are you just using IBL or are you useing GI as well ?? plucking at straws trying to think of the cause :confused:

Dont use IBL with FG its defeating the purpose. FG and GI is fine together with a mapped Sphere or FG with a mapped sphere. But do IBL on its own. That sphere is huge, make it smaller too, save on render time too. Any lights in the scene that arent showing? You wont need those for fg.

Jay

that definately looks like too few photons using global illumination... so check your light, if you have one.

can someone take this scene file and make the hdri work?

you'll have to re load a hdri image since its not included

http://www.3d-dan.com/testinghdri.mb

its a maya 7 file