The sky turned off? (5.0.4)

[arcady]

It seems that the sky is no longer lighting up objects in the scene:


I turned off all other lights, and tried with both 'sky' and 'realistic sky'.

Attached is one example.

[AintNoSin]

I'll be the first to ask the obvious question. Did you add a "Sun Light" to your scene?

[arcady]

I used the sky editor as shown in the pic.

Adding a second sunlight has never been needed before.


Go to scene wizard, select "blue sky", drop in a sphere, remove ambient and the default spot light, and render.

[AintNoSin]

The realistic sky has always required you to add a sun light to the scene before it would actually light the objects in the scene (Always meaning since Carrara 4, the first version I owned). The realistic sky is not a light.

[arcady]

It did not require it before 5.0.4.

I did not use a second light in any of the renders in my gallery.

[AintNoSin]

It's always been required for me. I've never gotten light from a realistic sky until I added the sun light. The realistic sky is not a light in and of itself. That's just my experience.

[arcady]

However it works, as long as it works is fine.

It was just a surprise when 'the lights turned out' for me - I'd never needed to add any additonal lights (save for those needed for effects and spotlighting) before, and had always presumed the 'sunlight' light to be for effects like a two sun world (although it had never before had any effect when I had tried it).

But if it works it works, even if the method is now different for me.

[Thomas]

Method is still the same. Perhaps you had a distant light in your scene, which create the same effect as a Sun light. the main difference between distant and sun lights is only the position of the sun light, which based on the position of the sun in the sy editor.