environment blur and envrionment/background switcher

[SgWRX]

is the environment blur supposed to work when inserted to the Environment/Reflections of the environment/background switcher - which is in the environment map in the environment and effects?

 

i have it setup like that, and i have the derive blur amount from ArchDesign Mtl option checked and the blur set to 0.0, blur map resolution 200.

 

if i lower the archdesign to anything less than 1.0 the object has completely blurred reflections to the point where you cannot see any variation.

 

i do have the single sample from environment selected in the archdesign material.

 

i thought i had this working some time ago..??

 

thanks,

 

edit: i'm in max 2016

[Francisco Penaloza]

Why don't you put the environment/background switcher on the environment slot of the material it self? of course with a copy of your environment.

What are you trying to archive?

Change the blurriness of a single element or a type of material and not affect the rest of the scene?

[SgWRX]

well this is odd... i replied not long after posting this that i solved the problem... the issue was that the mapping was set to screen. once i switched it to spherical it worked very well.