Perspective viewport and photometric lights

[dominiquelaksmana]

hi dear fellows,

everytime i put more than 4 numbers of photometric lights in the scene,
my perspective viewport becomes very bright-white, can't see
any previews. anybody know how to solve this problem?

thanks in advance.

[VKNT]

In your viewport right click perspective (or wathever view you are) choose configure.

In the dialog check default lighting and choose 2 lights

That works for me..

[dominiquelaksmana]

that doesn't work.
sorry

[Erik N]

Ctrl+L toggles different viewport lightschemes

[voltron7]

this might be a long shot, but I was having problems with lighting display in my viewports and called Discreet. They said that past a certain number of lights in a scene and most video cards would not behave correctly. They had me restart max in software mode and the problem was fixed....not exactly what you have, but worth a try...good luck

[VKNT]

I checked it in max, and yes with IES lights the viewport is behaving strange.

What I tought - toggle lightschemes - works well with standard lights.

But because you said it didn't work, I checked it again with IES lights. I found that it fixed the problem most of the times, but after a view sec. or turning the object around, it's overbright again.

As voltron7 says, it's probably a graphic card issue.

[Neilg]

Ive got the same thing at home and in work, I just assumed it was the nature of photometric lights that meant max couldnt display them properly.

edit: And it happened in my old job too. Same thing on an atifireGL, gefore fx5700, and a 6800gs.

[dominiquelaksmana]

it's very sad, isn't it?