Room is dark. Character is not.

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I’ve just tried to get a perfect dark room. It seems lightning (lightmap) for the room itself works well. However the character is still affected by light which is outside if he gets at a location where the two meshes where put together. Is this expected behaviour?

Outside:
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Inside (skylight switched off):
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Inside (dynamic lights outside):

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Screenshot taken inside of the wall:

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Same scene skylight on (character even brighter … some minor lightbleed at one corner… could be fixed probably with 45° sharped meshes):

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Same scene skylight on - dynamic lights outside (character even brighter - but red dynamic lights outside does not seem to light him):
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I’ve got better results with intersecting meshes where the most outside faces did not reach into the room. However static lights even punched through on the character in that case.

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You need few things:

  • Reflection capture inside the house so that the reflection environment is correctly black.

  • Lightmass importance volume so that the indirect lighting cache is dense enough

You can visualize the indirect lighting cache, it’s an option in the viewport options somewhere.