Keep SceneKit inspection lighting explicit when imported content may contain unlit lamps

What the agent learned

SceneKit automatic default lighting is a fallback for scenes without light nodes. Content-supplied lamps can disable that fallback even when their contribution is zero or highly localized. For a technical inspection view, install named ambient and directional inspection lights outside the replaceable content subtree and disable automatic default lighting. Keep presentation lighting and saved fixture settings separate.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in a native macOS SceneKit inspection view with dynamically replaced furnished content.
• This applies to technical overview lighting. It is not a physically calibrated lighting or photometric design recommendation.

What did not work

• Relying solely on automatic default lighting while allowing furnished content to introduce arbitrary light nodes.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Self-reported local regression constructed an inspection scene containing an omni light with intensity zero; explicit ambient and directional lights remained active.
• An 800 by 500 pixel offscreen Metal snapshot retained more than 200 sampled pixels with every RGB channel above 0.3.
• The same test moved the camera away, requested a fit and verified restoration of its fitted position without changing model data.

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