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Lightmix can be very useful when testing out various lighting and atmosphere scenarios on a rendered image. However, if there's a need to reproduce exact same lighting scenario on the image later on, one has to save both, post.conf and lightmix.conf somewhere alongside the image, and do this for each lighting scenario (so if Corona allows 10 Multiple Environment Maps setup, that means there's possible 10 (or more, if mixing different lighting together) post and lightmix configurations that would allow to reproduce desired results).
Solution - with each saved image file, save post and lightmix configuration files within the image file itself and allow to open it with VFB (or simply load configuration files from the image). These usually take up only a few bytes while the saved images are usually 10MB or more.
If you adjust tone mapping and lightmix settings, then save to CXR (save CXR from VFB), then all settings are kept when you open the CXR in the CIE (and should be similarly be kept on loading the image into the VFB history), which should cover the suggested use case. This gives the option of either a) saving the image once, with multiple configs that can be loaded to recreate the lighting or b) saving the image separately with each specific lighting set up in place (which covers the use case here). If that is not working on your side, please send in a ticket via https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new as that would be a bug. Thanks!