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Hi, I'm wanted to change the colour on my area lights, but the 'Use Light Color' mode seems to blow it out. Here is the scene using standard Octane values:

I find it slightly easier than using the temperature slider in the octane tag, or using a colour texture.
using 'Use Light Color':
I could compensate for this by bringing the non-octane light power down to 2%, but I wondered if there was a better 'Best Practice' method of doing it?

Thanks

In the screenshots it appears you have a FloatTexture in the Texture slot in the first example, and judging from the thumbnail it has a quite low value.
But in the "use light color" example, that texture is no longer active, therefore not bringning the overall brightness down. Try removing the FloatTexture and see if that brings the brightness to the same value.

/ Andreas

AWOLism wrote:In the screenshots it appears you have a FloatTexture in the Texture slot in the first example, and judging from the thumbnail it has a quite low value.
But in the "use light color" example, that texture is no longer active, therefore not bringning the overall brightness down. Try removing the FloatTexture and see if that brings the brightness to the same value.

/ Andreas

That worked! thanks.

No problem, happy it helped!

Theres still a default float value when you don't use any texture and it is higher. As said you caused bumped out the intensity multiplier by deleting it by an user error.