Batch render AOV comes out blank

[wholeemailsEYXNG]

Hi

I'm using Maya 2019, student version. I'm trying to render a simple object with an ai standard surface material. I have a plane with a shadow matte material to get an indirect specular effect in my render. When using IPR to see a preview of the rendering, the reflection looks really nice on the plane. After rendering and saving the image in png, exr, or tiff, the colors of the specular turned dark??? I lose the colors, almost look like grayscale.

I did batch render it in exr as well, with the beauty selected, the specular is completely empty. There are times when i render the objects, it gives me multiple files with nice renderings, however they have watermark???

do i need a license for me to be able to save them without the watermark?

please help! thank you!

[lee_griggs]

Are you saving out from the Arnold RenderView window?

Try rendering the sequence from the Maya Render View window instead. That way you shouldn't get the watermark that you do with batch rendering (batch requires a license).

[wholeemailsEYXNG]

Yes, i'm saving out from arnold renderview wiew. I just tried rendering the sequence, but it still comes out the same.

[lee_griggs]

Do you have anything in the background? A sky, skydome light, or rayswitch? If not it will render black.

Can you upload the original images (beauty and AOVs) as they are auto-saved from the render sequence window? EXR preferably.

If you can upload a simple scene somewhere as well?

[wholeemailsEYXNG]

it wont let me upload exr files here, so i just labeled them and made a screenshot.

I do have a skydome with AOV indirect box checked, and camera is set to 0, so that my background doesn't appear.

Batch render_indirectspecular, comes out blank with watermark.

Arnold render view, indirect specular doesnt show eaither.

but in IPR, it shows that i have it.

[lee_griggs]

Can you zip the scene with the exr and upload it somewhere?

[wholeemailsEYXNG]

I have these set too

[wholeemailsEYXNG]

ind_spec_render.zip

[wholeemailsEYXNG]

are you able to open the file?

[Stephen.Blair]

The batch render works for me. The indirect specular AOV is not blank or all black.

It depends on what you use to view the rendered image. If you're viewing the raw image (no gamma or sRGB transform applied) then it looks pretty dark.

The Arnold Render View applies an sRGB transform by default, so it's not as dark. If you were to change the View Transform to Raw in the Arnold Render View, then the indirect specular AOV would look almost pure black.

[wholeemailsEYXNG]

Hi! Thank you helping! Did you open the file and the batch render worked for you? It would be nice but I don't have a license. I have the watermark. I'm also viewing the image with sRGB transform.