The sunset casts non-white light on white surfaces even in version 9! 🙂 try it – you’ll see the lit side of the sunset go a little bit yellow or pink right at dusk.

I don’t know if the ambient levels will be further tinted in v10 – that depends on what our artists do…

I had a question regarding the new global illumination system – most specifically, how it handles color casts over surfaces like OBJs and aircraft. As an example, the effect of the sunset on white surfaces.

Thanks!

Dunno but it doesn’t matter. PPC systems are bottom of system requirements and come with at most 4 cores. They’re not going to be able to run enough “stuff” for the OS to matter.

Correct, here’s why. To “fix” the multicore issues we have to layer an allocator on top of the system one – this chews up a bit of memory since both allocators hold onto some reserve. So by not layering, we allow users to get the absolute best performance by running a newer OS.