I have been testing some render settings for final gather and HDRI image based lighting, to get a perfect result. I would like to use this setup for my white background white floor with soft shadows or reflections. But I am getting an unwanted white highlight below the object and a white hue problem.
My workflow and settings:
1- Create two spheres. Apply basic mia_material, change color to red. The rest of the settings for mat is default.
2- Create a plane, apply "use_background" on the plane. In the "use background attributes" i set the specular color, reflectivity and reflection limit to 0.
3- Create a camera, position it. In the camerashape1 > mental ray settings, i add a mia_exposure_simple for lens shader. Set pedestal to -0.01
4- Open up render settings, and in common tab> render options i uncheck "Enable Default Light"
5- Under "Indirect Lighting" tab i check "Final Gathering"
6- Final Gather Settings: Accuracy:300 Point Density:6000 Point Interpolation: 40 Secondary Diffuse Bounces:2
7- Under Quality tab, Raytrace/Scanline Quality > Max sample lvl: 2
8- Under Quality tab > Frame Buffer > Data Type: RGB(Float)3X32, Gamma : 0.45
9- Under Indirect Lihting, I create an Image Based Lighting sphere and add an HDRI image created in HDRI light studio with a single 500 watt light source (the one seen on reflection on picture)
Now if i hit render, i will get a plane reflection on the spheres. But the result will be like this, without any bottom sphere highlight or a white hue at the bottom half of the sphere. The reflection of the floor on the spheres is actually blocking the white hue at the bottom half of sphere, but still if you look carefully you can see the continuing white hue on top of the floor reflection border.
To get rid of the floor reflection on the sphere i go to pplaneshape render stats, and uncheck "visible in reflections." When i render like this, i have good soft shadows on the floor, but theres a white hue on the red sphere. And a white border highlight at the bottom of the sphere.
I need to get this hue and highlight dissappear and make the background and floor white without blowing the gamma and hdri light gain.
Now i think its a floor+gamma or exposure setting issue. But further this point when i try to change settings, gamma or IBL color gain settings to get a white background, i cant get a balance....
If anybody can give me a tiny little information othis it would be great. Thanks
