Michaelab opened this issue on Jan 05, 2012 ยท 123 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 06 January 2012 at 11:46 AM
You have to imagine you are a camera. You compensate for darkness by increasing exposure. This means in a high contrast environment (bright single light source - either sun or moon) you would perceive that light source as incredibly bright.
On the other hand, with many indoor sources of light, none are individually bright. Typical indoor intensity might be 2% but you have 12 of them.
Similarly, outdoors on an overcast day, the sun is muted and spread out, so you would not use 150% intensity.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)