what have I done?:S?

[gosiam]

Hey, I'm architecture student with final critique coming really (!) soon. Right now I'm doing some renderings in Vray (3d studio max). Ive spent many hours trying to make them look decent, so they were, until I somehow changed some settings and destroyed EVERYTHING. In despair I wanted to repair the file and started to search what I've messed up, but couldn't make it work again. I even made the scene once again, but I couldnt repeat what I have done on previous time. Can you please take a look at my renderings and tell me what to do with that? (the ok version is the second one- with visible construction). Aha! One more thing is that when the Vray is building its light cache I can still see the construction- but then on final render I got something like this first image:(( Can someone help me please?? It's kind of urgent for me now...

[RyderSK]

Seems to be like you blurred the glossiness in Refraction (Refraction Glossiness value Value, or darker color) or both at same time.

[gosiam]

The point is that I didn't change materials at all, I loaded them ready-made and ensured not to change anything concerning lack of my vray skills. That must be something in lights/environment/some general settings/camera settings (?). Any ideas???

[Tommy L]

You may have un-checked reflection/refraction in the global settings in the render panel.

[cg_Butler]

Lesson learnt here.........increment on save, don't overwrite one file all the time! It's probably to late but do you have an autosave setup? You could go back a few files and see if there is one that renders correctly.

 

Aside from that it's tricky to tell what you've done wrong. Good suggestions above but perhaps you can upload the maxfile for someone to take a look at?