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Question about getting rid of lights which don't appear on the scene tab - Resolved

Worlds_EdgeWorlds_Edge Posts: 2,153
edited May 2019 in The Commons

Usually, when I use a light product, I can see it in the scene tab.  If I decide I don't want to use the lights or want to switch them out, it's easy - I just delete from the scene tab.  However, about 30 % of the time, I use a light and it doesn't show in the scene tab.  Then I can't get rid of it.  So, for example, perhaps a lingering purple light remains on the character, but I don't know what to click on to remove it.  Hope that makes sense.

Any advice?

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  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,006
    Are the lights coming from the HDRI in the environment settings of the Render Settings tab? Or if you go to the lights tab and use the drop down at the top, do you see any lights that may have gotten parented to something?
  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,067

    If all else fails, Edit> Delete> Delete all Lights ?  If it is greyed out, there should be no lights (apart from HDRI, headlamp, emssives) in scene.

  • Worlds_EdgeWorlds_Edge Posts: 2,153

    Next time it happens, I can come back to this thread and state which light product results in this issue for me. 

    When I've checked the lights tab, the light product has not been identified there (on those times when I'm trying to delete a light, but can't find it) or anywhere in the scene tab (i.e., not parented).  I don't know if it is an HDRI related thing.  Basically, I click on a light product in smart content to try out various lights.  If I don't like what I get, I sometimes "undo" or just delete from the scene tab.  On ocasion, neither of those methods work, and that is when I don't know where to delete the product from.  

  • Worlds_EdgeWorlds_Edge Posts: 2,153

    Ok, I will try that next time.  Thanks @simonJM and @almightyquest  

  • dougjdougj Posts: 92

    One of the objects in your scene might have an emissive material in which case it wouldn't show up as a light in the scene tab. Here's a link to a short video that explains emissive materials:

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    Highly recommended, because it will give you a list of all lights, and a way of manipulating them: https://www.daz3d.com/iray-light-manager-pro

  • RainRain Posts: 346
    BeeMKay said:

    Highly recommended, because it will give you a list of all lights, and a way of manipulating them: https://www.daz3d.com/iray-light-manager-pro

    OMG!  I’ve spent countless hours trying to figure out how to delete lights from a scene, and I own this program.  Sheesh!

  • Worlds_EdgeWorlds_Edge Posts: 2,153

    It just happened again with bokeh studio hdr lights (which I love).  The bokeh effect stayed even when I started a "new" render/got rid of the old scene.

    Edit, delete, delete all lights didn't work for this particular light source.  Thanks to the advice above, I figured out it is an HDRI in this instance, and how to turn it off.  Both tips will be helpful, so thank you.  And @beemckay, I have that product.  Time to learn how to use it I suppose!

    Thanks everyone.

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