As I only found out a few days ago, while designing this image for whippetsleek. All is not as it appears when it comes to night time renders.
Research sunset to sunrise renders for the month of June:
Time sequence displayed left to right
Research sunset to sunrise renders for the month of December:
Time sequence displayed left to right
It's almost as if the December renders were carried out in the southern hemisphere?
One thing that would be great, when choosing a country for the Time zone: if that information also inserted the correct Latitude and Longitude information for that country.
Would require quite a bit of work and extra information stored in the rendering plugin to have such a feature. Would be really nice though!
I overcame the light night sky, by making a 'night time sky' jpg which I then used as a sky texture.
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At the moment, "Compute glass transparency" doesn't work (has no effect) while the "Add sunlight" box is ticked.
The thickness of the glass cubes makes it harder for the emitted photons (used to calculate transparency) to pass through and reach other glass objects further away from the light source.
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