Hello, All! Phoenix DeFalco here. I need some advice...I have recently started trying to use the new NVIDIA Iray Render Engine for DS4.8. However, for whatever reason, no matter what I do, I always end up with either a black image with a tiny light source, with no illumination to the scene, or I end up with a crap render that doesn't incorporate lighting at all, and looks just like the Viewport with Preview Lights disabled. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong, and how I could fix this issue? Below is a list of the settings I'm using. Thank you so much!

~* Phoenix DeFalco *~

PROGRESSIVE RENDERING

Min Samples:5

Max Samples:5000

Max Time (secs):7200

Render Quality Enable:On

Rendering Quality:1.00

Rendering Converged Ratio:95.0%

OPTIMIZATION

Refinement Mode:Standard

Max Ray Bounces:16

Max Reflection Bounces:8

Max Refraction Bounces:8

Ray Importance Threshold:0.020

First Frame Antialiasing:Off

Area As Point Lights:Off

Environment Max Resolution:2048

FILTERING

Path Space Filtering (PSF):Off

Pixel Filter:gaussian

Pixel Filter Radius:1.50

SHADOWS & LIGHTING

Occlusion Mode:Diffuse

Ambient Intensity:0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00

Ambient Falloff Min Distance:100000.0

Ambient Falloff Max Distance:100000.0

Ambient Falloff:1.00

Ambient Falloff Distance Space:World Space

Indirect Light Mode:Diffuse & Glossy

Indirect Outlier Rejection:On

Ambient Shadow Mode:Raytraced Occlusion

Shadows:On

IBL Falloff:On

TONE MAPPING

Tone Mapping Enable:On

Exposure Value:13.00

Shutter Speed (1/x):128.00

F/Stop:8.00

Film ISO:100.00

cm^2 Factor:1.00

Vignetting:0.00

White Point Scale:1.00

White Point:1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00

Burn Highlights Per Component:On

Burn Highlights:0.25

Crush Blacks:0.20

Saturation:1.00

Gamma:2.20

ENVIRONMENT:

Environment Mode:Scene Only

Environment Intensity:1.00

Environment Lighting Resolution:512

Environment Lighting Blur:Off

Ground Position Mode:Auto

Draw Ground:On

Ground Shadow Intensity:1.00