How do you fix lighting in preview (work window)

DefaultName

Basically, I've loaded an environment and lights that I want. In the Aux port, they light and show up in Iray preview beautifully.

But in my main workspace everything is too dark, I can hardly see the character, and can't navigate the scene at all. I use texture shaded for this while I work.

I have preview lights on, no idea what I may have altered to cause this. Thank you.

Fishtales

Try Ctrl/L and see if that helps.

DefaultName

I can see the figure now, but the background is still dark. Thank you so far, I don't know what ctrl/L does, I thought I had the poreview lights on.

Fishtales

If you are using a camera, rather than a perspective view, try turning the Headlamp on under the camera settings..

DefaultName

Oh, good idea, okay

Richard Haseltine

ctrl L toggles the light preview on and off - it's on by default, so the first press turns it off and just gives a generic headlamp (without having to have the Headlamp on).

Fishtales said:

If you are using a camera, rather than a perspective view, try turning the Headlamp on under the camera settings..

You can turn the headlamp off entirely in the General group in Render Settings.

spicefiction

Try adjusting the intensity of your scene lights until the preview looks good. The adjust ISO in render setting until the renders look good.