Which do I load first?

glennblackphotos

The environment as in a setting with chairs, walls ect or the character?

I have found when I load in the environment I can't see it in the main window either it's all dark.

its driving me nuts lol.

Richard Haseltine

What previre mode are you using? If it's nVidia Iray then an enclosed room probably would be dark, but in plain Texture Shaded that would tend to happen only if there were lots of lights and the first seven (on most video cards) were pointed away from the centre of the scene - turning off preview Lights (cmd(Mac)/ctrl(Win) L) would enable the ehadlamp even with lights loaded, allowing you to see the items in the sceen but not giving any kind of lighting preview.