So there is yet another issue then. While your light is on it will not emit any light. Toggling on/of does not help. The only solution I managed to get is logging out or relogging to a different character for like 15 mins or so. Changing the zone does not help. Full relog or just being offline for 15+ mins.
It is really easy to spot with items which emit light but also have an FX attached to them (antiquity pool, ayleid well, ect.) Light will be off, but the FX will still be there ^^ I run max particle systems and suppression distance, so that's not the thingie.
Drives me nuts!

I found a better example of this for any devs interested, plus, I have heard from others that something like this is happening on lighting items that cannot toggle on and off, like varla/culanda stones (just turning off).

I don't have video of that. Here's two examples of the problem here.

https://clips.twitch.tv/MuddyCharmingTortoiseStinkyCheese

This started happening to me again, for apparently no reason. Super frustrating.

I did not change any graphics settings, I didn't change any furniture, but porting back to some older houses of mine resulted in missing effects that had always been there properly before, so I don't know what's causing the issue now all the sudden.

Does anybody know if they increased graphics requirements with Blackwood, did they change particle effects suppression distance etc? Cause it's really strange to have this start happening in houses that have been fine before.

I seem to have this bug as well. I noticed it when revisiting some of my older builds.
I’ve never had any problems before.

It doesn't seem to occur in all my homes, but mostly the bigger ones which tend to have a lot of lights or furnitures with light effects. Sometimes it's some selective lights, sometimes it's all of them. “Turn down” and “turn on” (or “unable” and “enable”) works for a few seconds, but then the problem continues.

I've had 3 different ways of the lights acting weird. In all cases they were "turned on" or "enabled".

• The light looks as if it is off. No light at all.
• The light source itself is showing light, but the environment is not lit by it.
• For some furnishings which also have other effects, the light is off, but the other effect is showing. For the moon blessed pool for example: the light was completely off, but the shiny particles where showing.

I have no clue if this is a graphical setting, or what else might have changed.

Most of my builds are very dependent on light, so this is very annoying. Especially when a lot of lights are hidden out of view (in other furnishings or in the floor etc.) and I can not access them without taking everything apart.

I really hope there will be a solution.

I just checked with all my addons turned off, but still the same problem unfortunately

Yumij wrote: »

I seem to have this bug as well. I noticed it when revisiting some of my older builds.
I’ve never had any problems before.

It doesn't seem to occur in all my homes, but mostly the bigger ones which tend to have a lot of lights or furnitures with light effects. Sometimes it's some selective lights, sometimes it's all of them. “Turn down” and “turn on” (or “unable” and “enable”) works for a few seconds, but then the problem continues.

I've had 3 different ways of the lights acting weird. In all cases they were "turned on" or "enabled".

• The light looks as if it is off. No light at all.
• The light source itself is showing light, but the environment is not lit by it.
• For some furnishings which also have other effects, the light is off, but the other effect is showing. For the moon blessed pool for example: the light was completely off, but the shiny particles where showing.

I have no clue if this is a graphical setting, or what else might have changed.

Most of my builds are very dependent on light, so this is very annoying. Especially when a lot of lights are hidden out of view (in other furnishings or in the floor etc.) and I can not access them without taking everything apart.

I really hope there will be a solution.

@Yumij completely agree. I've run into it in the third situation you named in Sweetwaters while on stream.

I found it with the lights that come with Sweetwaters, with no other lights added.
Interestingly, I've NOT seen it with EHT configured lights, but I guess because most people don't use open flame, which this tends to be.

Raideen wrote: »

StabbityDoom wrote: »

Raideen wrote: »

I wonder if any of this has to do with housing addons.

I have not seen any light issues at all in my homes (and I dont use housing addons).

No, it's not an addon thing, even people without it get it. Also I know they've fixed parts of it before on their end but it's not completely fixed. I have encountered it recently.

I wonder then, if it has to do with people spamming lights inside their houses. Like some of the chandeliers folks make using EST where they have like 30 light objects together is causing the issue.

The engine may not like so many light objects in a given area. I dunna.

I use light appropriately and somewhat sparingly. I try not to have too many lights overlap because rendering light and shadow in a game is pretty intensive. I also have not seen the light issue and I spend most of my time in my homes.