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Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:50 am
by Leandro Oliveira
Hi guys. I´m using Lux 2.5 Beta 1 on Blender 2.90.1. My scene has a HDR which sunlight gets inside the room through a window. As tonemapper, I´m using "Camera Settings". I added some point lights as IES, and, when I render the scene with IES lamps turned on, the HDR sunlight becames weaker.
Any clue about this?

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 1:19 am
by Leandro Oliveira
In fact, there´s something more strange: what I mentioned before, happens in Preview Render. In final render, the HDR is weaker, even without the other lamps... I´m using Photon and Environment caches. Without caches, final render shows the HDR intensity as I expected. Why?

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 6:09 am
by DionXein
Mb something changed in standard settings? Try different Light strategy modes.

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 3:02 am
by Leandro Oliveira
Thanks, Dion, but the strange behaviour is still there...
Here follows what is happening:

With Photon GI cache only:
Photon Cache Only.jpg
With Environment Cache only:
Env Cache Only.jpg
The expected result, is coming from Photon GI cache image.
I don´t know why Environment cache is "disabling" HDR sunlight.

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 9:58 am
by Dade
Can you post a test scene ?

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 1:47 am
by Leandro Oliveira
Follows the file, Dade.
test.blend
(2.17 MiB) Downloaded 310 times

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:37 am
by Dade
Leandro Oliveira wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 1:47 am Follows the file, Dade.
test.blend
The scene is missing the HDR file for the infinite light source (i.e. "abandoned_parking_4k.hdr" file).

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:48 am
by Dade
BlendLuxCore seems also to not export most of the scene due to some layer stuff.

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 4:19 pm
by Leandro Oliveira
Dade, the HDR is too large to send it. I got it at HDRI Haven. The second layer is not important. It´s just a plane with an image.

Re: Weird light intensity behaviour

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 2:00 pm
by Dade
I have no idea how Blender works nor I'm interested to learn how it does. Nor I have the time to go around and find and HDR that will match the light in your original scene. If you can provide a simple scene I can export in LuxCore scene format, I will check what is going. Otherwise I will not.