Maya Hardware lighting limits

zerafian

Pretty simple question...hoping the answer is just as easy heh.

I have created 7 point lights in maya any other type of light I try and create does no illuminate. If I delete one of the point lights the new light that was not emitting turns on. It seems maya is defaulting to only allow 7 lights in hardware, high quality render view.

Iam lighting in hardware view with high quality render on. Im hoping theres just a way to increase or turn off a setting that is causing this.

PredatorGSR

The viewport is more of a preview tool, so it wouldn't surprise me. If you are doing that kind of complicated lighting, you should probably be using unreal or something like that.

ivars

The limit is a total of 8 lights (any types of lights)
You can specify which lights that is from the lighting menu in the current panel.