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I recently upgraded to 3DS Max 2021, and I'm having issues with Ambient Lighting with the Arnold Renderer.
I usually have my Ambient Lighting color set to RGB 200, 200, 200, and it looks like this in the viewport. Back when I used the Standard Renderer in 3DS Max 2015, this lighting would be present in the render as well.
However, when I try making a render of this scene, it looks like this, as if the Ambient Color was pitch black. To verify, I made a separate render where the Ambient Color actually was pitch black, and it looked identical.
How do I make it so that the Ambient Color actually affects the render and doesn't look so dark? I don't want to have to go back to using the Standard Renderer. Thanks!
I recently upgraded to 3DS Max 2021, and I'm having issues with Ambient Lighting with the Arnold Renderer.
I usually have my Ambient Lighting color set to RGB 200, 200, 200, and it looks like this in the viewport. Back when I used the Standard Renderer in 3DS Max 2015, this lighting would be present in the render as well.
However, when I try making a render of this scene, it looks like this, as if the Ambient Color was pitch black. To verify, I made a separate render where the Ambient Color actually was pitch black, and it looked identical.
How do I make it so that the Ambient Color actually affects the render and doesn't look so dark? I don't want to have to go back to using the Standard Renderer. Thanks!
In older versions of 3DS Max that did not have Arnold, changing the Ambient Light color in the Environment and Effects panel would affect shadow colors and how models were rendered when not really influenced by a light...I think. Here is what it looks like:
On the left is a render with an Ambient Lighting of RGB 0,0,0, and on the right is a render with an Ambient Lighting of RGB 200,200,200. Both were done with the Standard Renderer, as, again, Arnold did not exist in older versions of 3DS Max.
As I mentioned in the previous post, the Ambient Lighting appears to have no effect in the Arnold renderer, causing models to appear like the one on the left (but more extreme, as you can see in the first post) no matter what the Ambient Lighting color is. What I'm trying to do is determine how to make the lighting look more like the one on the right in Arnold.
In older versions of 3DS Max that did not have Arnold, changing the Ambient Light color in the Environment and Effects panel would affect shadow colors and how models were rendered when not really influenced by a light...I think. Here is what it looks like:
On the left is a render with an Ambient Lighting of RGB 0,0,0, and on the right is a render with an Ambient Lighting of RGB 200,200,200. Both were done with the Standard Renderer, as, again, Arnold did not exist in older versions of 3DS Max.
As I mentioned in the previous post, the Ambient Lighting appears to have no effect in the Arnold renderer, causing models to appear like the one on the left (but more extreme, as you can see in the first post) no matter what the Ambient Lighting color is. What I'm trying to do is determine how to make the lighting look more like the one on the right in Arnold.
The default lightning with some additional fake light feed from the opposit direction, right.
Just use a skylight and control the shadow density.
Here viewport fake ambient lightning.
render as described above.
The default lightning with some additional fake light feed from the opposit direction, right.
Just use a skylight and control the shadow density.
Here viewport fake ambient lightning.
render as described above.
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