Why is receive shadows making my color better?

[TheBadger]

Hi,

The only difference between what I am rendering right now, and the image I am comparing to is that I increased cloud quality, and turned on receive shadows.

It appears that by turning on receive shadows my color of plants and other things got more like what I expected. Is this possible? Or just a fluke? In general things got better in this scene when I added low laying fog/clouds, and then turned on receive shadows. I did hope to get a bit more depth and shadow from receive shadows on the objects on the ground, this was logical to me. But why the overall improvement in the look of the color of the plant objects?

Oh, also, I increased my render quality from .8 to .9 But I don't think that should really effect this part of it all?

went from an 1 hour+ to over 12 hours and still rendering... I think that is mostly coming from the receive shadows being on.

just asking.

[bigben]

I'm guessing you're just seeing more plant and less cloud.  Just because you can't see the cloud doesn't mean there isn't a very low density of cloud in the way and changing that setting may have made that less visible.

[Oshyan]

It's reaaally hard to just imagine what you're talking about. Please, please provide image examples *whenever possible* when you are asking about or reporting an issue or question. Also, are you talking about "Receive Shadows" in the cloud layer?

- Oshyan

[TheBadger]

You know, you can delete this thread. I am making too many tiny adjustments to a bunch of settings, and have too many test renders that I am going back and forth looking at. I think I just got my self confused about which settings and which test I was comparing.

I will for sure post this image when its done... Got some tweaking and even some modeling to do yet...

But If I see something to ask about between two more carefully selected test renders I will post them in the first place and ask again.

Thanks.