Hey all,
I couldn’t fall asleep because I realized that the added “physical-ity” of lighting might have broken some existing workflows! I decided to make a hot-fix to include good old lower dynamic range skylight as it was before, that is closer how HDRI looks and behaves, and is surely more artist-friendly.
The v1.2 skylight has huge dynamic range (0.00001 w/m2 night sky to 1000.0 w/m2 sunlit white surface to 20000000.0 w/m2 - solar disk ).
It works beautifully together with ExtraLights addon and Photographer addon.
Now this means that artists need to take extra steps to achieve same results as in 1.1 and I completely understand the confusion!
Hotfix is on the way.