I have noticed that when rendering images in SW Viz 2017 with a white background, the renders keep resolving with a light grey background instead. Anyone having a similar issue? I thought maybe it was the ground shadow, but i turned it off and ended up with the same result.
My settings are shown below.
Here is a sample of the rendering result( the background was set to white as shown above, nothing edited except cropped)
Hey Mike,
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I am familiar with those factors affecting the appearance of the image. The issue is that this outcome never used to happen in previous versions of Solidworks Visualize or Bunkspeed. The issues began when we started using 2017. If I bring the image into Photoshop and eye drop the background it is showing as a 1-2% grey, not white like it should be.
Hi Blake
Maybe the program is doing a little colour correction under the hood. Maybe try tweaking the gamma up to 1.2 or 1.3 and give that a try. I remember doing something similar with PV360.
Why not just save your render with the alpha channel and add your background color in PS. Then it will be perfect every time and can be changed without a re-render.
Use a white Backplate for your Background.
It will be always white, regardless for the lighting.
Yea, I have used the alpha channel option as a way to fix it. The Backplate works well if i want to save out as a jpg and have the pure white background.
I just feel like if you set the environment to white it should be white. Seems like something is wrong with the program.
I had the same issue when I started with Viualize, but now I just use a white jpg backplate when I start my projects.
I then usually export projects with the beauty, floor shadow and object passes as TIFF (ofc with the Alpha Channel). This makes it so easy for post processing in Phosothop, and gives you full control of your background and shadows.
Peter is correct. Build your backplate to your correct dimension, fill it with #FFFFFF white, and it will always be white.
That is, until you dim the brightness of your environment below some threshold.
Hi Blake , can of worms that one fella. What ever render package you use colours will always look different depending various things such as gamma, colour space, viewing angle even light in the room.
Color spaces in color management.
Looking at your render I may see a light grey on my screen, move my head slightly and I see white.
Don't worry unless its for a client demanding certain colouring requirements.
The Blue and yellow look great by the way !