[SOLVED]how to turn SC20 Outpost viewport light on??

artxtap

https://www.daz3d.com/sc20-outpost

when I load SC20 Outpost into the scene, the lights are off in the viewport:

when I render to 3dlight it too is dark[the render]

 

when I render to iray it is not dark[the render]

how do i turn on the lights? In the viewport.

thanks

3DSaga

Have you tried ctrl+L? That sometimes works for me.

artxtap

thank you. when the creator of this prop set saved these scenes they must have turned off the light!?

still when rendered in 3delight the render this dark, when rendered in multi-pass openGl the render is also dark, only in iray is the render not dark!?

see dark render above.

at least the viewport light is now on.

artxtap

solved

auto headlamp

Richard Haseltine

Ctrl L (Window>Preview Lights) turns off the previewing of scene lights, using a pseudo headlamp instead. Enasbling the headlamp in renders is not generally going to give good results, though it looks as if the Iray version is just using the default HDRI environment map - 3Delight can do soemthing similar using Uber Environment.

artxtap

Spoke too soon the creator of this asset has some weird setting, the 3dlight still renders dark, and has auto headlight set to never, but when switched to the only other setting ‘when no scene lights’ it still renders dark.

artxtap

Richard Haseltine said:

... - 3Delight can do soemthing similar using Uber Environment....

?? you went over my head there.

artxtap

oh look it's on sale[8-5-2022] $4.93

NorthOf45

Don't go buying the old version, Studio comes with UberEnvironment 2. Look for it in /Light Presets/omnifreaker/UberEnvironment2.

artxtap

no the 4.93 was for the sc20 outpost.

artxtap

the creator saved the assets the some weird  settings!

Richard Haseltine

artxtap said:

the creator saved the assets the some weird  settings!

You need an Uber Environment 2 light node in the scene and selected to apply presets.

artxtap

found a light switch, it's off by default.

here is a render[3dlight]. with the 'lights' in the scene turned on.

and this is the day scene not the night scene.

iray is all good.

the creator did turn off the viewport light also [ctrl+L]

PerttiA

There is nothing weird going on with the scene - It is an Iray scene and if you want to render it in 3Dlight, you must make changes to lighting and some surfaces do not translate well with the automated system when rendering.

The CTRL+L turns on/off preview of the scene lights, by default it is on (can't be changed by PA), but when previewing the scene lights, it doesn't recognize for example mesh lights as a light source and if there are no such lights that the preview does recognize, the preview stays dark or completely black.
When preview of the scene lights is turned off, the scene is lighted with a general light that has no relation to what lights there are in the scene.