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v.97c - 97d, day and night

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lynn22:
With Ray Trace renderer giving such nice results I'm restarting my museum movie from scratch.
While trying out the set-up, keeping it as simple as possible to reduce render times, I rendered the basic scene in V. 97c and then with exactly the same settings in 97d and got a totally different result. The light intensity went from morning (97c) to night (97d)  ;)

I will render in 97c because that's how I like it best but I wonder if anybody knows what might cause this difference ?

VBSmiles:
It appears ( by looks anyway ) that you have an extra light (above and near the ceiling) in the first render. Perhaps that light got moved out of the house.

lynn22:
Sorry, no, there are only 2 lights, one local light at the centre of the ceiling and one spotlilight, tilted to light up the "view" through the window.

Nothing was moved. I rendered in v 97c, closed the program opened 97d and rendered again without making any changes and that's why I don't understand the difference in output.

VBSmiles:
It's possible that the lighting was slightly altered due to the new lighting options.. * you can actually make it too bright now *

Settings | Lighting | global and ambient intensities 

Steve:
If you send me a .an8 project I can see what caused the change.  I fixed some math errors in how ambient lighting was calculated which  likely account for the difference.  It was too bright for some materials I think.

As VBSmiles pointed out you can change the overall lighting intensity for the entire project and for individual scenes with those settings.

Note: you may have faster render time is you eliminate the checkered floor.  (Settings->Environment uncheck Ground Grid.)

(Maybe you just rendered the v097d one later in the evening :))

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