Lighting coming from nowhere?

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johnb4467
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Hi everyone,

I'm running into an issue where I'm only wanting very limited light in my scene. Whether I have a sunsky node, one directional light -- or no lights at all, whenever I refresh my IPR render...I get lighting that comes from, well...nowhere. What I would expect to happen in the latter is a completely black screen (no lights)...which is where I could build up from. In this case, however...it doesn't seem like I can get to that 'start'.
Here is a link, but it seems to happen whether I go back to the very first iteration of the scene, or where I am currently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_vTuj8Z ... e=youtu.be
Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. :)
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johnb4467 wrote:Hi everyone,

I'm running into an issue where I'm only wanting very limited light in my scene. Whether I have a sunsky node, one directional light -- or no lights at all, whenever I refresh my IPR render...I get lighting that comes from, well...nowhere. What I would expect to happen in the latter is a completely black screen (no lights)...which is where I could build up from. In this case, however...it doesn't seem like I can get to that 'start'.
Here is a link, but it seems to happen whether I go back to the very first iteration of the scene, or where I am currently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_vTuj8Z ... e=youtu.be
Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. :)
Thanks for report!
I'm trying to reproduce it, but all is OK on my side...
Are you able to give me the scene?..

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johnb4467
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JimStar, thank you so much for such a quick reply.
I went through some steps to try and troubleshoot -- export only the characters to a separate maya file, going back iterations, etc...
...and finally I went through group-by-group and deleted them, seeing if anything happened.
Extremely embarrassing...but I had somehow created another "sunsky" node within one of my character groups.
Again...really embarrassing -- but at least it was a simple 'fix' -- just took me forever to figure it out!
Maybe there can be a limitation on only having one sunsky? Either that...or I just stop being stupid. ;)
Thank you again for the quick response. I figure that this at least might help someone out in the future.
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