No shadow on groundplane, render preview window completely black

Rendering Brazil
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So like the title says I’m trying to render an onbject. However, when turning on the ground plane my object does not cast any shade on the ground plane. If I do a render preview, the entire preview window is black. I’m guessing that something is wrong with my light source(s)? But I’m very new to rendering and I honestly don’t know. What might be causing this?

I have my renderer set to Brazil and I have indirect illumination and GI photons enabled. The rest of the settings are set to default values. Rhino renderer also comes out black. I have the feeling that I’m missing something very basic here, but none of the tutorials makes any mention of it so I’m a bit stuck…

EDIT: If I try to access the camera options in the Brazil toolbar I get an error:
" Unknown command _ViewDockBar"

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How are you lighting it?

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I’m currently using Brazil’s sun. However, it just… worked all of a sudden. I do still have a pretty fake looking object. But I’m currently working on improving the groundplane/lighting/environment to make it all look better. Just a another quick question, what is the best way to make realistic car paint?

PS I found the problem after all. There somehow was an environment loaded which was solid blackness…

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Please post your file I should be able to help you with this. Have been using Brazil for about five years… Danny

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So which Brazil release and Rhino you are using ?

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You need to add some reflectivity to the paint, I like to always use the Fresnel blend for that myself.

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Shit, how do you prevent a decal from printing through like this?

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Ah, I need better decal placement/direction