Turn default lights off automatically if GI is enabled?

[HAWF]

same here! please, turn it off.

[peterguthrie]

those poor default lights, you'd think we were a bunch of nocturnal nerds who couldn't deal with light...

@rmejia, your avatar gets me every time!

[LarsSonparsson]

Yep, turn it off.
I don't see any point why there even is that kind of option.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

yesssss please

[Morbid Angel]

Yep, turn it off.
I don't see any point why there even is that kind of option.

yeah, its actually a bigger issue in maya vray. Since in maya default light is not in the same place as vray's default light many users have issues with tracking it. Honestly, default light should not exist, instead, if a user renders a scene without any lights or any illuminating objects such as gi, a renderer simply should print a message warning that there is no lights in the scene. Much like vray prints when the scene has nothing in it.

[instinct]

If i could i'd have the default lights removed from max alltogether and just have a viewport override default lighting :P

So yes...i vote for never ever use default lights, print a warning and tadaaa

Regards,
Thorsten

[giraffe]

Agree with instinct.

[R2J2]

I agree With Morbid.
Less messages that way

print a message warning that there is no lights in the scene

[AXONN]

You have my vote also, I always forget to turn that one off

[jacobhansen]

Would be fantastic

[Donald2B]

My vote is to have it turn off also!

[duke2]

While we're at it, could you disable file output and activate "show GI only" when in animation prepass mode?