How to control Sun intensity and shadows

Hello,
I’m testing raytracing on model of a room with windows. The interior shot is very dark, the windows highlights very bright.
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On the outside, the whole thing is super washed and bright, white actually when it should be pink and stone
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Is there a way to control the intensity/softness/contrast of the shadows?
Thanks in advance, N

Hello- if you have not, I would expoeriment with the various tone mapping options in Properties for the viewport:
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-Pascal

Hi @pascal
That helps a lot with the contrast issue.
What about the softness of the shadows. Is there a way of “taming” the sun light without modelling clouds?
:wink:
N

use a directional light

Hi N - you don’t get to modify the edges of the shadows, that I know of. I suppose once you have the sun position, you can place a rectangular light - I think it would not be hard to extract the direction vector of the sun in a script and give you a line to place your light on. I’ll take a look.

-Pascal