background image becomes highly pixelated?

[stayinwonderland]

I've done this a thousand times before and this has never happened.

 

See attached (image in red outline is the original).

 

Note that the image overall will be somewhat pixelly due to being optimised upon upload.

 

[neil poppleton]

Can you comp. after or maybe its just your render settings.

[stayinwonderland]

Yeah I will do. I just don't want ugly test renders. It did improve a lot with better AA settings. But it's still a bit blurry.

[matthewgriswold]

anything to do with filtering/blurring in the bitmap parameters?

[stayinwonderland]

Ah yes. It's a combination of...

 

1. Image Sampler (I hadn't really set it up at the time of posting this but didn't think it affected a background image)

2. Bitmap blurring (changed from default 1.0 to 0.05)

3. AA filter (set mine to cook variable and set that to 1.0)

 

But worth remembering that vray/3dsmax will affect your background image at render time and it won't ever fully resemble the actual image file. I just thought it was left alone.

 

Thanks guys