Hi!
Animator here! I’m trying to render my scene in Eevee, but none of my lighting has any effect. Doesn’t matter what kind of light, how close it is, or the light’s strength. There is no impact on my scene on render.
Final output always looks like this:
Your HDRI probably isn’t showing up in your render and only shows in the 3D Viewport. Here’s how to setup your HDRI to work at render time as well as in the viewport.
Cool. Thanks for the quick reply! I’ll give it a go first thing tomorrow.
What’s your node setup? It looks like you’re using a shadeless setup, i.e. pure emission
or you have these turned off:
Yep. I shared that guess in my post that I shared.
It must be a good idea if two people had it 
Uhhhhhh…I lied. Still totally busted. The world is now purple for some reason? Scene lights are on and world light is on. The world light is connected to the purple light.
I lied. Scene is still super broke. 
Oh and none of the lights in the scene are purple just to be clear.
You don’t have an Environment Texture image loaded, so it defaults to magenta, which is Blender’s color for missing textures. Click Open on your Environment Texture and choose an HDRI
Added and adjusted. Thanks. Still the render does look different that the viewport shading. If I increase the light the skin become sunburnt looking while the armor remains too dark. Is there a way to make the eevee render almost identical to the viewport shading? Or is this as close as I can get? Thanks for the help again.
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Are you in Material Preview or Render in the Viewport? Use Z to switch between those. Rendered will show you exactly what the final render will look like. Material Preview shows what the test HDRI lighting looks like
I am in render in the viewport, but as you can see above the rendered image looks far different.
make sure you have the same hdri in preview and render
Yeah man HDRI is active on both. I dunno. May have something to do with how the model material properties are set up. I’ll write to the model author see if they have an idea.
looking at your images, it looks like some of the lamps are working (the ones in the candles). Is the scene very large with hundreds of lights? Because Eevee has a limit on the number of lamps you can use.
If that’s not it, maybe you could upload a stripped version of your file, with the characters and textures removed, so people can take a look at your render settings?
Here’s the whole thing. Just be careful, the model and rig as NSFW options that I have disabled. Not trying to break community guidelines. Uh, and to be clear this is just a lipsync of the show for practice. Nothing adult oriented. 0.0
Also good call. I hadn’t considered that Eevee has a lighting limit.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HUF-Q6RfK_bHMyslTt9GR8e0KxojL48x/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWr7_cXWmxzSbTcSNOrLw6fdLtNP0gWv/view?usp=sharing
Your problem is simply that you are using an HDRI in Eevee.
Eevee doesn’t have shadows for the world background by default. There is a way to do it however: you need to use an irradiance volume. It’s an object that you place over your scene and it will allow you to bake the indirect lighting in Eevee (though it can’t change during an animation, so it will only work for scenes that don’t change much).
