I have read various posts and manuals about global illumination and light sources.  Regardless of what I do, my character's faces come out dark.   I plunked them into a bar setting prop, basically changed whatever lights existed to be white as opposed to their default darker shades... even replaced the lights, and still my character's faces are dark.  I moved the global illumination anchor, made the cubic area that it affects bigger, and even smaller, but no luck.   Do I literally have to put a spotlight in front of my characters.  There is a 'wall' where the  camera currently is, but I turned its visibility off.  Meanwhile the background is too bright (the direction of the KEY light is pointing towards the back wall, but alas, the character's are... you guessed it...   too dark.

I removed the majority of the props in the following screenshot.  The only thing left is the bar and the chairs they are sitting on.

Please forgive me if this is a noob question, but it is literally a roadblock for me.  I can place characters, do animations, etc.


PS:  If I start with a blank project, the characters are fine as far as light goes.

You should also check the Shadow strength values in the visual section and in each individual light, cause maybe the issue isnt the lights but the Shadow strenght

Thank you for your reply.  It turned out I found a solution in an answer to one of your questions.  It wasn't global illumination that was the problem, but it was me using the Key light as my only real light in the scene.  I read in one of the answers to your post that key lighting was to be avoided in indoor scenes.

You would think that  reallusion would put something so basic in their manual, but nope.