I'm doing a scene in a dark room, unfortunetly even after removing all light sources and using the darkest night atmosphere I could find, the scene was still to bright. I've managed to darken strategic points in the scene with some negative value lights (do we call them Darks now?). So is using negative value lights the only way to darken the scene or am I missing something?

hi, i know the problem, and i worked hard in some of my image... in few words : 1 - work on exposure in atmosphere editor, set light balance near 100% and ambient light under 30% 2 - works on light intensity and softness 3 - try with many, many renders... and if use vue 4.5 pro download my radiosity scene generator maybe can help you...

It may be worth going through all the materials one by one in the material editor and setting their ambient component to 0. Boring and tedius if there are a lot of textures in a scene but it means that the only light that appears is light directly cast by a light you have added to the scene. One day I'll learn enough Python to write a script that will do this for me in Vue Pro.

Thanks for the pointers, sorry I should have said from the start I use Vue/mover 4.2. Actualy I'm finding some success with the Volumetic scenes, not perfect but easier than using a lot of little dark-lights.