Arnold render view different from render

[joe_stipo]

Hey all,

  I am having an issue that the new render view is looking much different then the actual render. 

I have switched my view to RAW and it is still off.

Also... Should I be viewing it in Raw or Srgb?  I thought that linear work flow should be viewed as raw so there is not a double Gamma correction but it defaults to sRGB. 

Thanks for any advise or help.  

Joe

[Stephen.Blair]

The default View Transform is sRGB (that's in the Color Management preferences).

The default Input Color Space is also sRGB, so by default textures are converted from sRGB to linear.

If some or all of your textures don't need that color space conversion, you can change it on a texture by texture basis, change the default input color space, or define rules for different texture types (eg displacement maps should have input color space = RAW)

After that, it depends what you use to view the image. What transform does the viewer apply?

[joe_stipo]

Ok so is the Arnold Render view not displaying sRGB?  it is much darker then my full render.  Can I adjust that?

I have been using the color managed sRGB for 2016 for export to aftereffects.  Only now that I'm trying to learn this new renderer did I read that it was being double corrected. and started questing if I have been dong it wrong. 

[Stephen.Blair · Accepted solution]

Are you on OSX? There's an issue with the View Transform not being applied.

You can open the Arnold Render View display settings (the gear icon) and manually enter a gamma value.

[joe_stipo]

Bingo!  Gamma to 2.2 and exposure to 0.  perfect.

Thank you! 

[wreliford]

Is this bug also on Windows 10 OS? I seem to have the same problem there.