Indirect Lighting Intensity value under skylight not working in UE4.26

[scott1391990]

@S-Dot

Have you tried to recapture the scene? There is a button in the skylight details panel. Or maybe they capped the value at 1.0 in 4.26?

I know this doesn’t answer your question. But the original purpose of the skylight in unreal was to flood the scene with a low level of light. It wouldn’t even cast shadows. It has become a bit more than that over time. But personally I never use it to light up the scene in unreal and it was always something lighting artists would use as a last resort.

With ray tracing enabled I don’t use a skylight at all. I find it is messing up the reflections. (You also won’t need it with Lumen). Maybe try using rectangle lights covering the window opening with an intensity of 0.5 cd in raytracing instead. I think it works great.

Probably better to use exposure control in the post process volume instead of indirect lighting intensity. The unreal skylight isn’t what it is in vray. But that might also just be my personal preference.

Thanks. I am using an HDRI in the skylight, so I don’t think that recapturing would be of any help.
And I don’t wanna use rectangle lights on the windows either.

But do let me know how do you light your scene when raytracing is enabled as I only recently got a RTX card and don’t know how to make the best out of it.

If all else fails, I would jump back to Exposure Control under Postprocessing