issues with mr physical sky

[nowikovs12]

Hi guys,

I'm having some problems with the little preview window in the Environments and effects dialog. It trims the geometry in the little preview and the bacground just stays black. It is a nice feature in Photoshop, but I don't find it useful in 3ds max.

I have tried to restart max, restart PC, I also did a new scene with just a plane and two white pyramids, the render looks fine with the blue environment, but when I want to alter the exposure values the little preview just ignores the background.

This only happens with the mr physical sky map, when I change it to noise or any bitmap, the bacground renders in the little preview as normal. I also just noticed that this issue doesn't appear when using iray as rendering engine

I can't find any setting to fix this, any ideas?

[Cad64]

Sorry, but I don't have an answer for you. I was hoping maybe someone else might know, but I guess not. The same thing happens in 2011, so I'm guessing maybe that's just the way it works?

[nowikovs12]

that's fine Cad64, it must be a bug then, as usually it just renders the full image, when I use iray renderer the preview looks fine.

Thanks again