face light not working

You can only render about 5 or 6 lights at a time. It could be you are seeing all the lamps in your store, but they are taking up those resources so you don't see the face light.

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I had a face light and then changed some settings and now i cant see my face light , my face is dark, i dont know what setting i changed so i dont know how to set it back. i even got a new face light and still it doesnt show up on my screen. others can see it on me but i cant. anyone know what setting i may have changed that i can fix back. my store still shows light from lamps, and full bright on things. yet no light on my avatar. please help.

It's true that when Local Lighting is set, you supposedly can only see the NEAREST 6 light sources. I would think that a facelight would be the closest one, so it wouldn't be excluded as a visible light source.

Since it seems to come up a lot:

r = light radius
i = light intensity
d = distance between avie and light

static light = (d * (1 / i) ) - r
dynamic light = (d * (1 / i) ) - (1.25 * r)

Or in other words: a dynamic light acts as a static light of the same intensity, but with a 25% larger radius

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Assume 4 lights (to make it easier they all have intensity 1.0):

light 1 - r = 2 ; d = 0 (OP's attached light - d is 0 for simplicity's sake)
light 2 - r = 5 ; d = 2 (static light)
light 3 - r = 10 ; d = 4 (another avie's face light)
light 4 - r = 10 ; d = 6 (static light)

Calculate the adjusted distance for each light:

light 1 = 0 - 1.25 * 2 = -2.5
light 2 = 2 - 5 = -3
light 3 = 4 - 1.25 * 10 = -8.5
light 4 = 6 - 10 = -4

The order the lights will end up sorted in is (from low to high): 3, 4, 2, 1

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Which illustrates the op's problem of having only a subtle facelight attached. In the example it sorts last, and if there was a maximum of three lights, it would be the first to go despite being the closest by far.

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Some trivia:
- if flycam is enabled, the lighting is calculated based on camera position, not avatar position
- selected lights have their adjusted distance reduced by 10,000 (or in other words, if you have less than 6 lights actively selected, they'll override anything closer which is useful if you want to take a picture and make sure that certain lights actually light regardless of what else is around)
- Advanced / Rendering / Info Dispays / Lights will show you all the light sources around you (the prim that has the light will be highlighted blue with a white bounding box around it and the light radius renders as an unintuitive yellow bounding box).
You can't tell which lights are active - although that looks like it should be relatively simple to add - but at least you can tell how many lights there are and how far they extend. If you want to see the actual spheres you can edit the prims and make sure Tools / Show Light Radius for Selection is selected, but that won't work for other people's attached lights.

There's no need for facelights. Just modify your advanced sky settings. You can make those settings permanent by modifying your day cycle editor.

There's no need for facelights.

wrong. try again.
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