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Currently we can control the lights with dimmers sliders, which are limited from 0 to 1000.
This range is not enough in case you use sunlight and phisical sky.
This is because the sunlight is more than 1000 times intense compared to artificial lights.

I have found that 1% of sunlight intensity is a lot more than 1000% of a street lamp. So we would need a more wide range dimmer sliders.

It is possible to enter values as 3000 or 5000 but although the multilights control panel accepts those numbers, they have no effect on the image.
The same happens with fractional numbers as 0,5 or 0,05 etc.
This can be solved by increasing the dimmer sliders range, enabling any number to be set, even fractional numbers, and it would be very interesting if the SUN light could be separated from the SKY light.
If this last improvement is added, it wil be much easier to handle an image to simulate night and day lightings.

Ernesto

I Totaly agree Ernesto. I have also founf out that 1000 isnt enough sometimes, and that it would be great to have fractional numbers, since the step from 0 to 1 is to big when it comes to skylight.

And to seperate Sun-light from sky-light would be just awsome.

If I understood correctly, you can simply increase ISO. That's the way I do it when the light emission seems not to be enough

No sms,
It is not a problem of ISO nor exposure time.
The problem is that since Maxwell is photometric, the relationship between a SUN light intensity and a normal lamp intensity, is so HUGE, that the o to 1000 sliders cannot cover them.

Ernesto