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Manage auto exposure

Manage auto exposure

- [George] Hi, I'm George Maestri. If you want to control the overall lighting of your scene, you need to learn a bit about Auto Exposure in Unreal. Now, Auto Exposure automatically adjusts the lighting in your scene so that it's an acceptable quality. Now, sometimes you'll want to change this to get a certain effect. Now, we can do this through Auto Exposure. Now, the easiest way to control Auto Exposure is to simply toggle it on or off. So, if we go into our Project Settings, we can search for Exposure, and you should find it under Rendering Default Settings. So, the one we want to look at is Auto Exposure, so if we turn this off, notice how the lighting in the scene changes basically subtly. Now, depending upon the scene that you have, it may change dramatically or subtly, and we can also control how Auto Exposure is calculated. Now, the one thing about doing it in the project is that it controls it for everything in the…

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