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[solved] How to remove Fog & help needed from the " Lights Experts "
Hello, English is my second language so bare with me lol

My animation project needs a dark setting & lots of light sources. I used the Camera setting "Tone Map Scale" to make the map very dark & then I added multiple light sources with high "Linear Attenuation" to the scene till I get the final look I want.

I didn't have any problems at first because every scene I make is close to objects, here is some examples:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=100408723
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=100408629
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=99657179

So up close it looks very very good... but when I switch to a big scene, the fog ruins the view a lot

Scene with no light sources:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8476/8100995132_c86b3c42ca_h.jpg

Now I added a light source with high Linear Attenuation just to give you an example

Scene with one light source :
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8468/8100994440_df44a7edb8_h.jpg

Still looks too foggy... only way around it is to copy & paste the same light source 5 times & it will give me the look I want at the expense of shadows no longer looking dark ( Crane's shadow )

Scene with 5 light sources at the same spot:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8335/8100994878_d8e5a4a072_h.jpg

Now I don't want to do this because I will be time consuming when I want to adjust a light & pretty sure it will be longer to render.


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Question One :
Can I get rid of the fog when darkening a map?

Question Two :
I've searched everywhere & I can't find a decent advanced Light tutorial because I need to know what does these sliders do before going deeper in my project?

Radius / Shadow Atten / Quadratic Attenuation / Shadow Depth Bias / Shadow Slope Scale Depth Bias / Far Z Atten / Near Edge / Far Edge / Cut On / Cut Out

Thanks in advance.
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