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LOGEXPDAYLIGHT

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See also:

■ Standard and Photometric Lighting Workflow

IntegerType:

DrawingSaved in:

2Initial value:

Controls if the exterior daylight flag is enabled when using photometric

lighting.

When this system variable is off, exterior daylight is turned off when

photometric lighting is enabled (

LIGHTINGUNITS on page 1391 system variable

is set to 1 or 2). When on, the exposure control algorithm in the rendering

acts as if there is an extremely bright light source in the scene. Therefore, the

default setting of “Auto” is tied directly to the sun setting. Under special

circumstances, it may be desirable to manually set this variable due to

extremely bright artificial light sources or, conversely, due to a sun-lit scene

that it is illuminated only by a small amount of directly visible sunlight.

Off0

On1

Auto, current sun status is used2

LOGEXPMIDTONES

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