Lighting issues

[mattryan]

Hello All

I was working on a project and using Open GL for rendering, the lighting was at default settings and the quality of the lighting was good.

I imported some tree symbols for background and suddenly the light levels are way up and everything is somewhat washed out.

I checked the lighting settings but nothing has changed and I cannot figure out why things would suddenly become so bright.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Thank you

[Tanner Shelton]

Check your ambient level setting. I'm not sure why it would have been raised just by importing some trees? The other thing I can think of, was maybe another directional light or point light imported when you imported your trees?

[Guest Frank Brault]

It may be that the tree textures have a glow parameter added to the texture definition; Try editing the texture Definition in the Resource Browser and if it is present, you can reduce the Glow value or eliminate it altogether by setting the brightness to zero.

 

 

 

[mattryan]

thank you for the assistance, I could not find the reason for this lighting wash out so I copied everything into a new file and it resolved the issue.

 

 

[mattryan]

Follow up, I discovered the source! Frank you were on the right track, I had a lawn chair symbol that had a light within the symbol definition, so when I increased the number of chairs it increased the lighting levels each copy.