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Maya Environment Color always white ?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:30 am
by Hase666
whenever i render a Picture in Maya my Background is White/Grey. it doesn't matter what color i set in the camera (Environment/Background Color). the only way seems to be is adding a sun sky and the set the power to 0.001. weird, there must be an other way, isn't it? i just want to render sometimes scenes with a black Background, why is there always this White Color???
sincerly
Peter
Re: Maya Environment Color always white ?
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:36 pm
by TBFX
Hi,
Because you are rendering in Octane you must have an Octane environment node to control the BG colour, if you don't create one then one is created as a default in the engine when you render. During the beta stage of the plugin there was quite a bit of discussion about what the default should be and also the possibility of hooking it up to the BG colour in Maya's camera environment settings but to be honest I can't remember the reasons it is how it is.
I really don't see a problem with having to create an Octane environment node, it's only one button click and in most cases you are going to need one anyway.
T.