Quote - With IDL objects will "contriute" to the overall lighting of your scene, which is exactly what you want it to do. But the colour of objects will also affect the skin colour of your characters. Turning off light emmiting on objects can overcome that, but can negate the benefits of IDL (it's ambience) - a double-edged sword. I guess you need to be selective in its use and use trial and error.

Yea I'm starting to see that now.

I really need an IDL light solution that lets me save time but not dicking around with a bunch of BULLSHIT. lol  i Just want to get some effing work done. This is driving me crazy how stupidly time consuming this is.