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Gamma and LUT Preferences 873
Gamma and LUT Preferences
Customize menu > Preferences > Preference Settings
dialog > Gamma tab
On the Gamma and LUT panel of the Preference
Settings dialog, you set options to adjust the
Gamma (page 3–1042) and lookup-table (LUT)
values for input and output images and for the
monitor display.
The LUT f unct ionality provides support for the
same-named feature in other Autodesk Media and
Ente rtainment software such as Combustion and
the systems suite: Inferno, Flint, Smoke, etc. This
feature allows studios to implement a consistent
way of displaying colors, assuming that their
monitors are calibrated to the same reference.
Thus 3D art ists can produce results that are closer
to what the compositor expects by eliminating
a variable in the equation: the way colors are
displayed on screen.
Note: The lookup table controls a vailable here
do not affect exposure control or lighting of the
scene. While they do affect the colors of the final
image, this is with regard to the display only. By
having a reference across a studio (with calibrated
monitors), using standardized lookup t ables
minimizes var iability in rendered output.
Also, please note that the LUT system of the
systems suite is complex and offers a var iety of
controls and flavors of lookup tables. This feature
integrates the View LUTs only, such as that found
in Combustion, where only the displayed images
are modified.
Interfa ce
Enable Gamma/LUT Correction—Makes available
the controls for adjusting gamma and LUT
adjustments you make and applies the
adjustments. Turn off to d isable gamma/LUT
correction.
Load Enable State with MAX Files—Loads the state
of Enable Gamma/LUT Correction with each
3ds Max file.
When you choose Load Enable State, and load
an 3ds Max file whose Enable Gamma/LUT
Correction state differs from the current state,
you can make the correction correspond with the
setting in the current file or leave the setting as is.
If you have a
maxstart.max file and you choose this
option, new sessions of 3ds Max use the Enable
Gamma/LUT Correction state in the file. If you
turn this option, off, the fi le doesn’t affect the state
of Enable Gamma/LUT Correction.
Display group
You use display gamma or lookup tables for the
Material Editor spheres, the color selector , color
swatches, and the
rendered frame window (page
3–5)
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