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Originally Posted by daveb867
i'm not sayin i don't believe you but half of my sky portals are way to intense on the scene even if i do everything as above
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Are you saying they emit too much
light, or that they are blown out visibly?
If the former, well, your exposure must be off.
If the latter, well, read on:
Here's the thing: Our eyes have built in tonemappers, and we are really poor at judging absolute intensity. So we can stand inside a room, lit only by light from outside the room (through a window) and see stuff both indoors and outdoors.
Try that with a camera; either your indoors are pitch black, or your windows are blown out. That's just life, with real photography.
Luckily, the portals have a built in feature to get around this unfortunate reality of physics: Go to the advanced rollout you'll see a "Transparency" setting. Set it to some dark color. This will not affect the
light, only what you
see through the portals. It's a faux trick to behave like your eyes - it makes the great outdoors darker to the camera, but still lets all of the lighting in.
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