Inverted Colors When Compositing

Support Compositing and Post Processing
#1

Does anyone else have this weird problem? If so, did it show up in one of the latest versions of Blender?

Very simple scene, just a sphere with a monochromatic Emission material, and a plane below. When I try to add glow and/or glare effects via the compositor (in the same way that’s worked before, per the Wow Factor’s instructions), I get this odd inverted color thing.

Is the “Screen” mix node now not the way to combine nodes/node effects?

P.S. The top “render layer” input is the plane, the bottom input is the sphere.

P.P.S. Odd; putting the screenshot in here counts as too many characters to upload. See attached image instead. (If it works…)

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#2

I think if you mute the BrightContrast node, you might get back to normal expected output. I reproduced your setup without that node, and I got a very decent glowing orb

#3

If the screen effect is exceeding 1.00 then you may have an illegal color issue.

#4

Turn on Clamp then?

#5

“Clamp” doesn’t seem to do anything.

After some more experimentation, I got this…

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Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems that somewhere in one of the recent updates (2.69, 2.68a, etc…) that the “Mix” node is no longer necessary for combining a blur or glare of object with the original object.

That would make sense, I think, since most of the time one wouldn’t want just the blur or glare, but want the original shape/object as well.

Can anybody confirm or definitively refute the idea that the “Mix” node is now unneccessary for these effects?