A side by side comparison. Same mesh, mat, daylight settings, camera response, camera settings, and imager settings. Max's gamma correction is off. Again, thank you for your time.

Thank you, but I performed that procedure as well as reactivating my license prior to opening this thread.

Would you mind posting a screenshot like mine with the same setup and may for comparison (1st wood mat in live DB).

Karba wrote:

jcuratolo wrote:Other possibilities?

What are you trying to get?

Trying to get the mat to look right as well as the mat editor previews.

Other possibilities?

And then fstop adjustment with all else the same

Karba wrote:

jcuratolo wrote:
Thank you for your attention to this. I changed the fstop to 8. The colors are still washed out no matter what gamma or exposure settings I use. Incidentally, standalone renders just fine (comparing the same mat). Any ideas?

You can try to set response to linear

Here it is set to linear

There is no environment map right now, just octane sun, octane camera, and sphere with liveDB mat. Everything else is as it was installed.

Your sphere looks overexposed. Try to reduce exposure.

Thank you for your attention to this. I changed the fstop to 8. The colors are still washed out no ...

Disable Max gamma correction.

Suv

Same deal, negligible improvement. I'm haven't a clue what this could be from.

To use octane camera image settings you have to click to camera viewport (perspective), otherwise octane uses settings from render panel.
What inveronment do you use?

There is no ...

suvakas wrote:Disable Max gamma correction.

Suv

Same deal, negligible improvement. I'm haven't a clue what this could be from.

look imager in "camera settings"

Playing with the gamma there doesn't fix things. Tried both the modify panel and render setup locations.

if you have a camera in the scene, setings in "render setup" does not work, they work in the camera setup.

You mean in the modify panel? I already tried ...