Green Dots troubleshooting

[itisnot-me]

Hi All,
Does anyone have a usable workaround for the known green dots that appear once in a while in renderings?
I got them with bump maps set too high in raycasts, and also with reflective objects in raytrace. I solved the bump map ones, but Id like to keep the reflective values of my objs in some raytrace, and just get rid of the dots.

tnx in advance for any suggestion
litow

[aken]

I read somewheres...I can't remember if it was at the highend forum or the cgtalk forums...but some guys were discussing the same problem...but they were using area lights...and raytracing...

don't know what kind of lights you are using...

I guess the only fix for this was an update on aliaswavefronts website...but I don't know where to find this "fix" sorry I cannot be much help...

-peace-
aken009

[goli]

Yep - there was a thread about this earlier (seems like a long time ago). From what I can recall it had to do with raytracing and area lights, and was a bug in Maya 4.0. I believe it was corrected with 4.01 (or 4.02, or something like that).

Try searching the site - you should be able to find it.

[aken]

hey thanks alienwest...now I don't feel like all this crack I've been smoking is affecting my memory....

[daanbanaan]

yeah.....keep smoking crack boys and girls!!!...

it is nutritious AND delicious!!

[anim8z]

Ah yes, we refer to it as the infamous cyan pixel.
Reproduceable at AW but that didn't help.
Their best explanation was that the translucence was somehow causing it (which didn't explain why my metal shader was doing it).
It usually is a case of altering the lighting (and turning translucense to 0 doesn't hurt) raytracing and area lights are suspects but not proven culprits.
AW said they have a fix, but they wouldn't give it to us, and rather told us to wait for 4.5

Jon

[l3373d]

I have had the same problem and I dont understand, if AW fixed it why wont AW give you a patch - thats lame. Why pay for support if you are not going to get any!
(- not to get to far off topic but side effects recompiled houdini in a day after fixing a bug in their renderer and I had a cd in hand the next morning. now that is support)

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