Does Solaris/USD support ambient lights?

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There doesn't appear to be an ambient light in Solaris?
We are using an environment light with no texture and no shadows as a workaround.
A google search of "Pixar universal scene description ambient light" is not turning up anything.
Does USD/Solaris support ambient lights?
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I highly doubt it. Ambient lights don't really have an equivalent in PBR rendering.
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create Dome Light and disable shadow (in Shadows/Enable or directly inputs:shadow:enable property)

EDIT: sorry, I misread you are using that approach already
Edited by tamte - May 26, 2022 19:55:54
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create Dome Light and disable shadow (in Shadows/Enable or directly inputs:shadow:enable property)

EDIT: sorry, I misread you are using that approach already

No worries. Thanks for confirming that's the work-around.
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create Dome Light and disable shadow (in Shadows/Enable or directly inputs:shadow:enable property)

EDIT: sorry, I misread you are using that approach already

No worries. Thanks for confirming that's the work-around.

I suppose it would be a close approximation, especially if you disable specular contribution.
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