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The Color of Light

Light may appear white ("clear") to the naked eye, but actual white light is rare in real situations. Here is a reference aid for shifting your light hues to perform more realistically for your Vue d'Esprit scenes. Note: this is not refering to the color of light/lamp *objects* (the sun , a candle flame, an exposed light bulb) but only of the transmitted *lighting* from those emitting objects.

Due to Vue's inability to save/share single-color files, I am displaying the color picker with the RGB settings and a rendered version of that color in use. You do not need to apply the exact same color hues that I'm showing here; they only need to be in the same general color-area to represent that particular kind of lighting.

1 - Sunlight Sunlight changes constantly throughout a day and is dependant on weather conditions and seasons as well. These guidelines are general  approximations, not absolutes.	Pre-dawn Dawn Morning Midday Afternoon Evening Sunset Nightfall Twilight
2 - Moonlight This is a general setting that will serve for most uses. Moonlight varies in intensity as the moon waxes and wanes.
3 - Ambient light Generally, ambient light should be a medium neutral tone. However, colors can be useful in certain situations.
4 - Incandescent Incandescent bulbs transmit an orange-yellow tinted light.
5 - Fluorescent Fluorescent lighting is slightly yellow-green.
6 - Television A running television will cast a desaturated blue tone into a room. While animated, the color shifts lighter to darker, still within the same general blue tone.
7 - Candlelight/Fire Flame transmits a yellow-orange hue. If you're animating, the color can take shifts from orange to yellow as well as from light to dark.
8 - Gas Gas lighting emits a strong turquoise blue hue, but very clear, almost to white.
9 - Sodium Arc Sodium arc lamps emit very bright, nearly white tones of true blue.
10 - Fog Lamps Fog lamps (on cars or over parking lots) are typically orange toned.
11 - Halogen Halogen lighting is a very intense blue, nearly indistinguishable from white.