Anyone know some good tutorials?

Also, for IBL lights using an image source, do I have to add a light and turn it off in order to stop Daz from adding the headlight? If I use an IBL image and no lights, the lighting is too bright. Then if I add and turn off a light, the IBL lighting is not so bright - that's better.

Is there a way to disable that auto headlight, so I don't have to keep adding a light to turn it off?

The headlight is parented the camera and can be turned off regardless whether you physically add a light or not.

What about when there are no cameras added?

If there are no camera added the scene has a default Perspective camera which also has a headlamp attached that cannot be turned off or modified when in the perspective view. You can load a camera that copies the active camera position and then using the parameters turn the headlamp off under the headlamp section in the parameters tab.

Once the headlamp is turned off the scene may be a little dark so can turn on some preview lights that do not render by pressing ctrl L.

Either way, I have to add something in order to turn off the headlamp.

Thanks for the explanation.

The headlamp defaults to on so that a new user will not be confronted with an unlit scene that renders black unless they configure a light setup in the scene. Steepening the learning curve. What your seeing is the effect of the automatic setting on the headlamp set by the General render preferences.

An individual camera has 3 settings for headlamps. No changes are available directly on a default camera such as the Perspective view camera.

OFF - Always off

AUTO - On when there are no other lights in the scene

ON - Always on regardless of lights in the scene.

General scene presets for the headlamp are found under the General Render Preset - Auto Headlamp this setting will effect all instances of the Headlamp in the scene.

There are two possible settings under "Auto Headlamp" in the render preferences.

When no lights in scene - As described

Never - Always default headlamps including the perspective view to OFF.

If you want to have Never as the default for the auto headlamp use the "General" tab in Render Settings, change the default setting for Auto Headlamp which is defaulted to "When no lights in the scene" to "Never" and the headlamp will remain off no matter the lights in the scene. If you want a more permanent change for all of your scenes you can load the default scene and change this setting to your preference and then re-save as the default scene so that your preference is what loads when you start a new scene.

Razor42 posted at 7:07AM Tue, 24 January 2017 - #4295769

The headlamp defaults to on so that a new user will not be confronted with an unlit scene that renders black unless they configure a light setup in the scene. Steepening the learning curve. What your seeing is the effect of the automatic setting on the headlamp set by the General render preferences.

An individual camera has 3 settings for headlamps. No changes are available directly on a default camera such as the Perspective view camera.

OFF - Always off

AUTO - On when there are no other lights in the scene

ON - Always on regardless of lights in the scene.

General scene presets for the headlamp are found under the General Render Preset - Auto Headlamp this setting will effect all instances of the Headlamp in the scene.

There are two possible settings under "Auto Headlamp" in the render preferences.

When no lights in scene - As described

Never - Always default headlamps including the perspective view to OFF.

If you want to have Never as the default for the auto headlamp use the "General" tab in Render Settings, change the default setting for Auto Headlamp which is defaulted to "When no lights in the scene" to "Never" and the headlamp will remain off no matter the lights in the scene. If you want a more permanent change for all of your scenes you can load the default scene and change this setting to your preference and then re-save as the default scene so that your preference is what loads when you start a new scene.

Two things to add. Most render settings are persistent. Which means that if you set your render setting so your headlamp is in the desired setting it will stay there until you load a scene that contains a different headlamp setting.;

Starting with a default scene is generally the most consistent option.

I always recommend setting new scene and open to have a default camera as well. This way you get a more consistent experience when saving and reloading scenes.

Thanks for the tip. Never is better for me.