3Ds Max Low Contrast on jpg texture

[damianchase]

Hi, I am getting some horrible results with the bright portion of the image looking perfectly fine and the black shadows looking awful.

 

I suspect that this is some kind of a contrast problem. The image looks exactly the same like that without any rendering in 3Ds Max 2015 and 2016.

 

I use Vray Material and then choose bitmap and put a high resolution jpg file on top of it which looks perfectly fine in windows.

 

Thanks for looking. Please help.

[Francisco Penaloza]

are you using any lights in your scene??

did you try to use a VRay light material instead?

[damianchase]

Here's an original and the rendered version placed on a Vray Material.

 

There are also other light sources in the scene.

[damianchase]

Here's the original and the render on a Vray Light Material.

[akshayarora]

Have you done any tweaking in levels or curves in V-ray frame buffer or check your gamma setting in color mapping . This will sort out I think

[Francisco Penaloza]

I don't understand really, can you post screen shot of your scene setup??

Render settings, how many lights, exposure, GI if any.

[Casey Hawley]

Does the 'Compensate camera exposure' option in the VRayLightMtl adjust for this?

[damianchase]

I have found a solution.

 

The problem has been caused by the 8 Bit Texture Format setting in Vray RT Settings.

 

Thanks to everyone for trying to help.

Edited June 15, 2016 by damianchase