Having difficulty with lighting specific models

[Ricewagon]

@Bucket Meister;580502

I disabled shadows on the directional light and disabled the skylight entirely. Anything not hit by the directional light is pure black, and I’m trying to reduce that, so that an object receiving no light will still have some texture

Ah! You don’t want to be disabling the skylight, that’s the ambient lighting that will fill in the black sides. https://wiki.unrealengine.com/LightingTroubleshootingGuide#Why_Are_My_Shadows_Black.3F