hdr issue in maya vs standalone

[prodviz]

Hi Jim,

I'm having some issues with rendering hdr's in maya vs Octane standalone.

Rendering in maya with an hdr gives me a very bright scene with a dark hdr background


I saved out the scene as an Octane scene and render in standalone.
This shows a similar bright render with the background a fair bit lighter.


I then deleted the hdr node and reimported (all in standalone).
Both background and geometry are dark but now sit together.


Then I upped the power of the texture and all is fine.


The other issue in maya is that the Octane transform nodes seem to work in the Z only, which appear to distort the hdr as well as rotation.

cheers,

Steve

[abstractmedia]

Is your image HDR?

I've seen non HDR images used for HDR lighting before and the power had to be cranked way up to get it to look right.

[prodviz]

Hi there,

yep, the image is an HDR.

I tried a couple of different files, just to be sure.

Changing the gamma on the image node balances things out a little, but I don't think this is the correct way.

cheers,

Steve