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    Dark Render Preview - Hard Drive Model

    Question
    Roger Corbett(Dodge)
    posted to: Modeling a Hard Drive

    Hi, Following along with the Hard Drive tutorial and have hit a small snag. At around 7 mins we switch over to the Render Preview. Unfortunately, my preview is too dark. I've tried moving the light and fiddled with a few settings. Not sure what I'm missing but I'm sure I'm missing something ;) DullDrive.png

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hi Roger Dodge ,

      That is Render Preview, but you are in Local View, meaning, you don't have any Lights, apart from the 'World', which is dark grey by default. Simply hitting the forward slash should help.


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    • Omar Domenech replied

      Alternatively, you can also change the color of the world background closer to white so you get even more light if the default point light ain't cutting it for you.

      World.png

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    • Adrian Bellworthy replied

      Or you can disable scene lights and scene world in the viewport shading options, and use one of the included HDRi's.

      viewport_light.png

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    • Roger Corbett(Dodge) replied

      Thanks all for your responses. As I’m quickly learning, there is often more than one way of doing a thing in Blender. 

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