Hello,
I am posting to try to understand why two renderings of the same model with the same settings appear different. The first set were done a month ago and all that has changed since is the window mullion colors which I would think wouldnt make an impact like this. When I originally made the file I made individual visual settings for each image and havent changed any settings/time of day settings which were saved by individual image (shouldn’t have changed either). I’m mainly noticing that the skies are different, the contrast is much more intense now, the dark areas are much darker, and the saturation seems a little lower.
(first image is 1 moth earlier) (second image is the new rendering that is off)
Mainly asking because I lliked how the images looked a month ago more than they are rendering now but can’t figure out how to match them in Enscape. It would be nice to know why this is happening for future work in Enscape!
Thanks!
Hi @sspitzer and welcome to our Forum! 
Right away, even if the time of day and visual settings generally settings have not been changed the cloud position here can affect how much sunlight is hitting the scene and thus depending on this coverage you may indeed see differences in contrast, saturation and intensity of the sunlight itself.
What you may want to try right away is decreasing the “Density” of the Clouds as well as the “Cirrus Amount” by just a bit via the Sky tab in the Visual Settings. Doing this should already help with achieving the desired results again and judging by the images the difference seems to mainly be due to the cirrus clouds especially, which are also dynamic alongside the clouds IF Wind is enabled.
So furthermore, if you go into the Atmosphere tab you can also set the Wind Intensity to 0% as otherwise you will have slight movement in the clouds over time which does and should effect the scene slightly too.
I hope this helps already! Please of course let me know in case it does not, a further few screenshots would be very helpful then.
@sspitzer , also, in in case this might be of interest be aware that you can also always import your own background as a skybox as detailed here: https://learn.enscape3d.com/blog/knowledgebase/skybox-as-a-background/
Just sharing this since doing so disables our cloud coverage entirely, which may be useful for you to reproduce the exact images every time, though of course with my prior tips this should not be a problem even in case clouds are enabled (with one of our provided horizons), perhaps in this regard ideally without Wind enabled though.
Looks like the time of day and cloud settings are different, which will result in different lighting conditions.
