Trouble Controlling the Brightness of Lights

[Frutiger]

Hey Guys,
Is anyone else experiencing a bug where you can't control the brightness of lights? I'm using the fluorescent preset and every light is insanely bright. It makes it look like the sun isn't even on. Furthermore, the emission scale setting doesn't appear to be functioning at all. When setting the exposure on the camera, I'm forced to use an ISO of 1 and exposure of -9.0 to even get close to a good exposure.

This bug is a bit of a problem for me and has put me in a place where I may be unable to deliver work that I've already signed up for, or the quality of the work may be severely compromised unless I find a fix. So any help would be much appreciated!

[Frutiger]

Oh yeah, almost forgot!

OSX 10.7.1

Indigo 3.0.14

Skindigo 3.0.15

And here's a scene of the issue (dropbox link). This scene also shows another bug, where when two identical lights sitting next to each other, one won't emit light for some strange reason. Weird.

ARGLEBARGLE

Anyways, after removing the lights, the scene renders as this:

WTFBBQ

Exceedingly frustrating issue. I've checked everything I could think of to make sure I'm not messing up some obscure setting. I'm actually ready to blame it on time traveling neutrinos.

[davidbaird]

Skindigo 3.0.15

This is going backwards, but.......
Could you try testing the same scene in Skindigo 3.0.14.

[Whaat]

Emission scale works fine for me. Try it with 3.0.14 and see what results you get.

Are you using Reinhard? not sure why else the sky would magically appear when you remove the artificial lights.

[Frutiger]

This is going backwards, but.......
Could you try testing the same scene in Skindigo 3.0.14.

You're right, rolling back to 3.0.14 should've been the first thing I tried. I think I need to scale back my willingness to be an early adopter! Let's hope the stable version works.

Are you using Reinhard? not sure why else the sky would magically appear when you remove the artificial lights.

It is using reinhard, but camera mode suffers the same issue. The problem is that the interior lights really are just waaaaay too bright. I need an ISO of 1 and an exposure of -9 to avoid overexposure, and that's in combination with turning down the brightness of their light layer. Either way, it doesn't function as intended.

But this is all trivial because i'm using prerelease software. Totally forgot about that. I'll check 3.0.14 as soon as I get back in the office.

[Frutiger]

3.0.14 is working as intended. That fixed it.

But also: I didn't realize how much faster 3.0.15 was until just now!