Hi,
I seem to be getting really blown out renders in raytraced view mode. This is just a default file with a little bit of geometry thrown in there. There are no lights in the scene and the sun is off. I’ve got the sklylight on but that’s it. Even with the intensity of the environment dialed down to .1 the render is super bright. What am I missing.
Thanks for the file. I checked it in 6.28, 6.29 and the 7.0 WIP and all behaved the same. In fact, I’m seeing the opposite of what you report when first opening the file as it’s all black in Raytraced. The reason is that the Skylight is set to .1 intensity but doesn’t use a custom environment which means it falls back on the visible Backdrop used. For that you have the Office hdr and it’s fairly dark but could be used if the intensity were raised to 2 at least for the Skylight. I’d suggest instead using a solid color for the Backdrop and then use the Office as the custom environment for the Skylight. This will actually use it’s luminance values better for the lighting. Here’s a video where I play through some of these options to illustrate what should happen.