Black Renders

prettyeyes77

I am trying to render V7 using the Sun and Sky Environment. Every time I do, the render is black. If I change it to Dome and Scene it works fine with lights. What am I doing wrong?

frank0314

Iray or 3Delight?, Scene lights? And is there anything -such as a sky dome model - blocking the dome HDR?

Richard Haseltine

Sun and Sky will not sue any lights you may have in your scene, Dome and Scene will use both the HDR sky dome (or the Sun/Sky settings if there's no HDR map applied) and and lights within the scene. From the fact that Dome and Scene gives you light and SunSky doesn't it sounds as if you are in a room or an actual sky dome model, which blocks SunSky and the HDR on the environment in Dome and Scene, but you do have some local lights that work when Scene lighting is on.