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Subject: Limited Lighting


aulfif ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2021 at 9:08 AM · edited Tue, 13 February 2024 at 3:41 AM

I have set up a scene with 8 lights, but I can only switch on 5 lights at any one time. If I try to switch on a sixth light, then one of the other lights will switch off. Is this a limit to my computer abilities or is it the software? I have tested this in an empty scene, with only 6 spotlights, but again I can only switch on 5 lights.


Richard60 ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2021 at 11:57 AM

In preview you will only get 5 lights because of OpenGL. However if you render in anything expect Preview then the lights will all work.

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aulfif ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2021 at 12:16 PM

Thank you so much for this. You have no idea the frustration and the things I tried to find a solution to this problem. If only all my other Poser woes could be solved so easily :)

In preview you will only get 5 lights because of OpenGL. However if you render in anything expect Preview then the lights will all work.


hborre ( ) posted Mon, 25 January 2021 at 8:30 PM

IIRC, this is mentioned in the manual.


aulfif ( ) posted Tue, 26 January 2021 at 3:58 AM

This is why I usually avoid asking for help, for fear of looking like an idiot. There are times when I've read te manual, looking for answers to a specific problem and seemed to get lost in a maze. It won't happen again.


hborre ( ) posted Tue, 26 January 2021 at 7:02 AM

No disrespect intended by me. There are times I refer to the manual when I get stuck somewhere and find something else new that I overlooked the first time. Or the second time. Or the fifth time. Or when someone else points it out.


aulfif ( ) posted Tue, 26 January 2021 at 7:29 AM

I have watched so many tutorial video's, but there are times it seems to go in one ear and out the other. If I try to apply a technique I thought I had learned and it goes wrong, I assumed I've misinterpreted something along the line. That said I was watching one tutorial, I think it was by Mark Bremer, and he said if things don't always go the way you expect, then it is sometimes a software bug and not you. This gave me hope.


hborre ( ) posted Tue, 26 January 2021 at 7:54 AM

Sound advice.


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