When I render out a movie as screenshots, the frames are much darker than what they look like in the editor. I have auto exposure turned off.
I had some serious issues because of the default settings on the Eye Adaptation post effect. You may want to start there. I’m away from my PC with Rocket, but I’ll try and remember to get the values I’m using when I get home.
If you set different eye adaptation values for camera and PP volume that may be the case. Camera overrides the post process volume when you enable and change a value.
Thanks for clarifying the issue you are experiencing.
Mehmet’s answer from a few days ago is the correct one for this. To control the exposure as seen in Matinee’s “Create Movie”, you need to set the exposure directly on the CameraActor that is being viewed through, under it’s Eye Adaptation category in the Details panel.
When you set the exposure in the Editor’s “View Mode” dropdown, this is only for your own benefit as you work in the editor.
I hope that helps.
Cheers!
Ah, I see. I’ve now set a global postvol with a max brightness of 0.05 which almost gives the desired effect. But I would welcome the ability to turn off automatic exposure entirely under the eye adaption category.
There is a way to accomplish this, although it is slightly unintuitive. If you set Eye Adaptation’s Min Brightness and Max Brightness settings to the same value, then it’s a fixed value and eye adaptation is effectively disabled.
We are planning a more intuitive toggle to avoid confusion in the future.
Cheers!
Hi Christian,
I have not experienced this while testing the issue. Are you able to reproduce this behavior on any of the included projects? For instance, I added a Matinee to ShooterGame and when I rendered a movie as screenshots, they matched what was seen in editor.
Thanks
I’ve tested it with the reflections example and it seems that automatic expose get’s activated automatically when matinee captures the movie, even if it’s deactivated in the expose drop-down in the editor. It would be nice if that could be fixed since auto-expose is not always desirable.
Can you please clarify which “expose” setting you are referring to? Do you mean the Camera’s “Eye Adaptation” settings?
Thanks.
No, I mean the expose settings under the view modes in the dropdown of the UI bar. The one with “automatic expose” and “fixed exposure” -4 to +4 settings.