Emission material changing global lighting?

Hey there, I have a animation to do where a Emission material turns on and off quickly, but in my demo here https://pasteall.org/blend/b615db2696c749bd9c1bb5e97e6274db it seems to be changing the global lighting (ie the floor is changing to a gray and that will be really distracting in a quick animation). Am I doing something wrong?


Thanks in advance

  • spikeyxxx replied

    That is probably due to your Color Management settings.

    Filmic (this is my understanding, do not quote me on this to Troy Sobotka!) makes the brightest value of the Image 1 and compresses everything else 'down', so, if you make the brightest pixel brighter, the whole image will become darker...Setting it to the highest contrast will increase this even more.

  • Ross Franks(rfranks) replied

    Wow I feel like a noob. I was so concentrated on the animation I totally forgot about the Light Path settings. I’ve changed the settings to…