I made it all the way through the first lighting tutorial and only ran into a couple of issues. When I first started, I was confused because my file opened to look like this:
-as opposed to the full scene that KK had on his screen. No matter how many times I re-pathed the images I kept getting this result.
I reached out to the class and found that Crystal was having the same issue. After some troubleshooting, she informed me that the answer was simple: pressing 1 on a node displays it in the viewport, and KK’s scene happened to be on a different node than ours when we loaded ours in. I was able to follow along with him after that.
The only other issue I ran into was when we were rendering the shot in Maya. For some reason when I pulled up the geo, I see this fully constructed scene rather than the HDRI in the background. I repeated this step a few times and achieved the same results. I hesitate to tamper with it as I’m not sure whether there’s an actual issue in the file structure or if this is simply what the final outcome should look like.