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Ambient Light Toggle for Ray Tracing

Currently when a given area is in complete or near-complete darkness with Ray Tracing, a uniform ambient light is activated in order to retain visibility. This feature is very useful for survival and creative gameplay, but prevents scenes from retaining complete darkness. Being able to control if it activates or not would be very useful for taking certain types of screenshots, for players that want more realistic gameplay, and especially for map creators in creating cinematic visual presentations for genres such as horror maps.

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    Plzz Mojang, it would add so much immersion to RT.

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    I loved the fact that it could get pitch black in RTX. Lighting improvements fundamentally changed gameplay when pitch black was possible. Paying attention to how tunnels were made mattered and light placement became more natural, intuitive, and important than just "place a torch every X distance".

    Seems a bit of a waste when it magically gets bright as day when you wall yourself off in a hole. How are eyes supposed to adjust to zero light?

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    This and the ability to hold a torch on the off hand! C'mon, Mojang!

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    Yea

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    Please can we go back to the old lighting back with the RTX beta. It was so very much better. There is absolutely no need to place light sources any more. Everything is lit up like a Christmas tree. 

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    really no reason ambient light should be forced upon us!