Light don't seem to appear in iray

evilcho_

Hi. I'd love if anyone is able to help me with this since I am struggling for quite a bit now. I have this skydome: https://www.daz3d.com/planet-lava and whenever I start the scene it only shows a single light in the whole render (the door light, picture below) and I tried a lot of stuff to make the other light work, but nothing seems to be working. I'd love any help or suggestions.

https://i.gyazo.com/746feefa6f442a1d83473550134a0d23.png

 

The thing is that with cartoon shaded and texture shaded it shows light just fine it's only iray that's making problems:
https://i.gyazo.com/cf1e52d6e167dcb04d010b019192bd79.jpg

BeeMKay

Planet Lava is for 3Delight renders. It's not descigned for Iray. If you try an iray render, it's not going to work easily. The skydome will block any light.

You'd have to convert it to a light source, but even then the light might not be strong enough.

Apply the emissive light shader from the Iray Uber base set to the skydome. Then, into the Base Colour slot and into the Emission colour insert the diffuse map of the skydome. Set Lumiance units to kcmd and then see how much light you get. You might want to yank up the Lumiance value quite a bit. Also, with the lava, adding a little bit of bloom setting during the render works miracles.

 

evilcho_

Your suggestion worked like a charm! Thank you so much.