World appearing black For some reason, whenever I do a test render with Shift + Z, all I get is my character and the world is black. In the World properties, I have a Sky Texture with a strength of four, but it still shows as black. The only thing it effects is my character. Also, I'm wondering if this is related to why I can't get my character's shadows to render/show on a separate Render Layer...? I do have some Nodes set up, but deleting all of those hasn't fixed the issue, so I'm not sure if they're to blame.

Any advice?
I had this same issue with Blender 2.8 

This worked for me :-

under View Layer tab, select Filter drop down and make sure that the Environment Checkbox is checked

Hope this helps