If you use the regular color picker, the range gets converted to about 1~205. The 10 to 230 range is for Photoshop textures and Vra圜olor gamma corrected colors. Using overbright colors will not only look non-realistic, but it will also increase the render times, as the light needs to be bounced around more. Even the darkest coal has an albedo of ~4%. The same goes for the blacks, only black holes absorb everything the rest of the world reflects at least a small portion of the light. The whitest snow has only 90% albedo (reflectance rate). Most things we think of as pure white are actually ~75%-90% white (190-230). Important note – for realistic results, the Diffuse must use colors or textures in the range of 10~230 on the lightness scale. This seems a bit complicated for just getting a simple color in 3ds Max, but currently there is no automatic way to do this. Now the color of the material matches perfectly with the color you took from Photoshop. (or a 1TB ssd for 100€ now, not so long ago it would have been 250GB or 500GB).Set the same RGB values in the color slot and change the Gamma correction settings to “Specify” and make sure it’s set at 2.2 Now that gives you a 4TB regular harddrive. I've always spent about a 100€ on a harddrive.
And it's not like ssd's are costing similar to regular harddrives.
Maybe I'm old skool but I've always had a programs harddrive (usually as fast as possible within the budget available) and a data harddrive. This is more of a general comment but I really don't understand why more and more companies (who work in sectors that have high data levels) seem to be using the user documents folder as a standard place to save large amounts of data. VladoCould you add an option menu to the installer when a new update is released? ("save to" or "set path" or something similar) Would make it easier and something a lot of other programs do. Another approach is to specify a network path for the library in the installer when running the installation on all nodes - then only the first install will download the library, the rest will just use what's already there, but will still set up the paths appropriately.