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Maximum number of omni lights that viewports will display highlights for?
Maximum number of omni lights that viewports will display highlights for?
Hi,
I have 8 omni lights in my scene which I'm rendering in the scanline renderer. If I add a 9th light the highlight from this doesn't seem to be shown in the viewport. I'm on max 2009 64bit with Quadro FX 4500 dual quad xeon 2.6. Have tried the same file with 3dsmax performance drivers, open gl and direct 3d seems to behave the same way. I do find the viewport feedback great for getting highlights in the right places. Ideally I would like to add more omni lights to get highlights where I wanted them all over an organic shaped figure.
Does the same here with Omnis and with Target Spots and a combination. Not only do you not get the highlight, the (9th) light doesn't illuminate the object at all (in the viewports). They do render correctly however.
Seems to be a hard limit, but I can't find it in the Help if it is.
Only suggestion I can make is to save multiple versions of the scene with 8 lights each, then merge (or xref) just the lights into a master scene.
Wow Steve, really dredging up an old one there! 🙂 But a good piece of info to share, too. Thanks!
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