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[Chiefer]

Hi Chad,

Selection for Lum. is in image 1.

- Indoor and outdoor selection from Launch Wizard affects light settings in the Ray Trace Option dbox. EX: dark outdoor will give direct sunlight intensity of zero.

- It is better to go directly to the Edit menu of the Current Configuration than going to the Launch wizard because you will have full control of the settings.

- Turning on "enable environment light" makes a subtle difference but takes a little longer to render but not as long with photon mapping on and best of all no lights leaking.

See examples below:

Image 1: my preferred raytrace settings

image 2: sky env. turned on (7 - 10 mins),

image 3: sky env. turned off (2.5mins).


Hope this helps.