estherau opened this issue on Apr 02, 2010 ยท 171 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 07 April 2010 at 3:44 PM
Notice the figure and wall have changed, but the prop has not. The prop is not affected by GC. It measures illumination, not rendered reflected luminance. It is a predictor of how things will look. It does not actually look like those things.
This is important. Bad shaders can confuse you and cause you to mess with lights when you should not. Use the meter to find the lighting level you should be at. Then adjust shaders.
The light meter establishes a standard. Use it.
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)