At first I thought maybe you were exaggerating a little about the darkening. I haven't really used the cloud planes much since the volumetrics came out. I went back and checked in Carrara 4 and now in 5, and I think you've hit on a bug. I think the alphas of the cloud planes aren't working correctly in C5. It doesn't cause that much trouble with one plane, but after that the sky gets quite dark. I'll report this to Eovia. As far as settings not sticking, I haven't experienced that. Are you Mac or PC? With the sky color, it is difficult to get any really useful tweaks to the color. It is so tied to the haze and atmospherics that even a slight change causes havoc to the scene colors. Great if you want random alien skies, but really useless for trying to pinpoint a specific real world sky color. Perhaps I will also have a discussion with them about that, if they are receptive.

Message edited on: 03/10/2006 17:08