Different lighting in the Chaos Vantage Live-Link preview

When using Live-Link connection, Chaos Vantage can produce different lighting result than the V-Ray Frame Buffer. Here's a short list of known causes of discrepancies:

 

  • 3ds Max native Exposure Control

    Currently, Chaos Vantage does not support the native 3ds Max exposure settings.

     

  • GI bounces

    By default, Chaos Vantage has a limit of 2 GI bounces (Render Settings > Lighting) calculated for the scene. For interior rendering, where the scene lighting depends mostly on the GI conditions, this value can be increased to 4 in order to match the lighting result from the VFB.  

     

  • Clamp secondary rays

    The Clamp secondary rays option (Render Settings > Advanced > Lighting) is used to suppress the contribution of very bright secondary (GI/reflection/refraction) rays that usually cause excessive noise/fireflies. Setting low values (less than 200) for it may lead to darker than the VFB results.

     

  • V-Ray frame buffer color corrections

    Effects and color corrections applied in the VFB do not get exported to Vantage. 

    Here's how to workaround it:

    1. Export the VFB Color Corrections as a LUT by right-clicking on the Display Correction layer in the VFB and choosing "Save All CCs as LUT".

      SaveCCasLUT.png
      Location of the Save CCs as LUT option in the VFB
    2. Load the .LUT file in Vantage.
    LUT_location_vantage.png
    Location of the LUT color correction in Chaos Vantage

 

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