Is there a maximum number of lights you can have in a scene?

Hythloday

for some reason when i add a new light, in order to have it show up, i have to turn an existing one in the scene off... i've used more than 6 lights before but i cant seem to have more than that on at the same time for this one scene...
??
thanks

Jaderail

DS will only SHOW a maximum of the first 8 lights in the scene in your viewport. It will use all the lights you add in your full render but can only preview up to 8.

Mattymanx

To clairify, the OpenGL viewport in DS can only show 8 lights which is a limit of OpenGL. The software renderer, 3Delight, has no limit to the number of lights when you render your scene.

Hythloday

got it , thanks!