If you’ll look past the noise in the video you’ll see certain light objects aren’t appearing in the render until I back up far enough, then the scene updates and explodes with the true light setup. Going to try some elimination but I’ve noticed this issue in a few of my scenes now. Can’t recall ever seeing this kind of behavior before.
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Sorry for wasting your time. I was just about to post a file download tonight as I kept finding this flaw over and over again. Well I solved it. Camera culling was applied to the emission object planes… makes complete sense.