Why don't colors match from Library Browser to Camera View?

[Kilgore Trout]

After playing around with this for a while, using the white vinyl siding that is in HD Deluxe, I think I know what the problem is. The white just doesn't look very white and looks more grey then white.

I think this is just a side effect of the fact that computers don't do a very good job of modeling lighting the way it looks in the real world. The attached picture should look similar to what you see if you don't change any of the settings.

Now there is a trick you can use to brighten the lighting affect on the walls. Use the Adjust Sunlight tool to lower the angle of the sun. What this does is make the sun lower in the sky so that it shines more directly on the wall instead of being so high up. I set the sun angle to -25 instead of the default -55 and this is what I got.

Neither of the two pictures I posted have shadows turned on.

It all has to do with the angle of the sun light. If your sun is straight over head (-90 degree), it will not shine on the walls and they will be dark. If your sun is perfectly horizontal (0 degrees), your walls will be the maximum brightness. This is because computer lighting is not the same as in the real world. In the real world, everything will be brightest at noon and much dimmer near sunset. In the computer world, your objects are brightest when the light is shining on them straight on instead of at an angle.