Hi everyone
I am battling to remove a strange artifact showing of a dark dot and sometimes a dark line when compositing the emission layer in Adobe after effects and Davinci Resolve
I have attached the simplified houdini file with the sky texture and its ready to render to see where the problem is
So, I render the following AOVs from Houdini 18.0.532 using the latest redshift 3.0.27
I render the following aovs as exr:
beauty_aux.exr
diffuse.exr
emission.exr
gi.exr
reflection.exr
refraction.exr
specular.exr
z.exr
The sky image is an exr which I applied on a redshift dome light inside houdini
I follow the guideline on how to composite all these aovs into a final image in Adobe After Effects and Davinci Resolve and i place the layers in the following order: diffuse, + gi + specular + reflection + refraction + emission
The emission aov ends up showing a dark spot especially arounnd the area where the sub is at its brightest
sometimes it even shows an entire dark line again around the area in the image where the sun is supposed to be at its brightest
this artifact only appears when I switch my project setting to run on 32bit per channel
and even when i try to load the beauty aov exr, i get the same dark spot so this issue is not just limited to the emission aov
Then moment i switch the project to run on 8bit per channel, the dark dot and dark line artifacts dissapear
but then in Adobe after effects, i end up losing the ability to bring back the sky colour and details, the image ends up looking flat and even when i adjust the curves on the colours, the image remains flat looking
Thank you
__Sky_Artifact.rar
render.zip