Texture and material with same color renders as different color

There are two objects side-by-side, one covered with diffuse texture, the other just diffuse color. In cycles live view both appear exactly the same color -as they should, but in render, the one with texture appears much darker.

Cool story.

Is there something you want done about this? Perhaps you could show us a file with the setup that causes this behavior? Or did you just want to tell us in vague terms about something you saw once?

http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?322623-How-to-ask-questions-effectively-on-blenderartists-org-support-forum

Yes, a cool story indeed :slight_smile: