How to block skylight in indoor environment?

[Chosker]

… you make 0 sense.

please read the original post again.

You could flip the variables around and achieve the same end result.

no you wouldn’t, you would see bright interiors from the outside. which is what the original post and the entire discussion is about

In that case, you just fix it with a post process for the interior since it’s got nothing to do with dynamic lighting

a postprocess won’t do it because a postprocess affects the camera and everything you see. so you’ll still get bright interiors when you’re outside. again, something that has been discussed in this thread

but with wierd art direction that’s opposite to normal.

we’re all trying to get a mid-brightness exterior ambient light with a darker interior ambient light which we all perceive as normal, I don’t see what’s so weird about it. your scene has very dark shadows which unless your game has a flashlight would be very uncomfortable (the cave entrance looked pitch black, I don’t know how anyone could navigate that in a game). or it’s possible that your monitor is badly calibrated which could be causing this big difference on opinions.
here’s a few random-googled images of games with mid-bright exterior ambient lighting and darker interiors: 1] 2] 3] 4]
and here’s an example of a darker interior looking out a window (normally the game isn’t so dark - in this screenshot the eye adaptation seems to have over-darkened everything) 1]

@Arkiras

I’m sure you’re already aware of this but you can mitigate this to some extent with a depth card material. Won’t work in some situations (like thru-tunnels where you can see the other opening) and it really works best for outside-looking-in scenarios. Inside-looking-out is a much more difficult problem, but I think it can probably be done.
(obviously still not as realistic as a scene with real world lighting values with properly set exposure)

yep, aware of that. in my Local-IBL thread there’s a section where I basically discourage people from using it anymore and I list some alternatives, and this one is part of them
it might work on some cases but it’s almost fragile trickery