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Something I've really struggled with - viewport lighting.

RobinsonRobinson Posts: 751
edited April 2020 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

As soon as my scene gets to some level of complexity, with emissive surfaces and maybe lights and cameras, I often struggle to get light in the viewport.  I navigate it in almost complete darkness.  There's no "headlamp" option on the standard view configs as far as I can see (perspective, left, right, etc.).  What I want is for it to have basic, default lighting in the scene whilst I'm posing and moving things about.  When I switch out to iRay everything is correctly lit of course. It's just the viewport going black I'm struggling with.

What am I doing wrong?

Btw:  As a UI developer myself, I like to think that if it isn't completely obvious, something isn't quite right.

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  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,691

    Hit control L

  • RobinsonRobinson Posts: 751

    Holy... where did that come from?  It works.  But is that available in the UI?

  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,691
    edited April 2020

    Not by default, but if you hit F3, then on the left side scroll down to the window section and expand it. You can drag drop it to any of the toolbars or menus on the right side.

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  • RobinsonRobinson Posts: 751

    Marvelous.  Thank you.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800
    Robinson said:

    Holy... where did that come from?  It works.  But is that available in the UI?

    Window>Preview Lights. It's on (DS gives a preview of the scene lighting) by default, turning it off gives a headlamp instead (but the scene will still render with the lights, not the headlamp).

  • RobinsonRobinson Posts: 751

    It's so obvious now you point it out.  I wonder why it's not on the view menu though... 

  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,691

    Oh ha, yeah I missed it in that menu too.

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