My entire set is all black, why?

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Lately I bought myself the Modern Casca bundle and when I load the set it is all  comepletely black:

https://imgur.com/a/sCqdqw8

Waht do I do?

Richard Haseltine

I can't find a set of that name, but it looks as if the lights that are being previewed are not helpful. You could try turning Preview Lights off (cmd(Mac)/ctrl(Win) L, or the Window Menu) or you could use the nVidia Iray preview mode (sphere icon at top-right of the viewport, next to the camera/view picker button) or use the Aux Viewport (Window>Panes (Tabs)>Aux Viewport) for the 3Delight IPR, depending on which render engine you aim to use.

DrNewcenstein

The scene has light sources (invisible light emitters floating in the scene), which override the preview camera's default preview light (for some reason I never understood in OpenGL previews).

Switch to a Camera that has a Headlamp On/Off/Auto setting (not the default Preview/Left/Right cameras), and turn the Headlamp On.

I think the setting in the Render/General tab for "Auto Headlamp/When no Scene Lights" affects this as well. Set it to Always should fix it. Maybe. Never tried it, as I stopped using point lights and use only scene elements as Emissive objects (if there's a Light, it gets an Emissive shader).