If you have a given standard light, say an Free Spot, you can easily change the shadow type to VrayShadow via $.shadowGenerator = VRayShadow().
However, it seems maxscript is unable to actually manipulate the adjacent On/Off property. Looking at the listener while toggling it gives you $.castShadow = on/off but if you try that via maxscript it doesn’t actually affect the box.
Trying to build a script to help make sure our lights are set up correctly with vray and area shadows and while everything else can be checked or corrected via maxscript, if someone fails to check this On box it doesn’t do a lot of good.
Anyone have any insight?
delete objects
gc()
max modify mode
f = FreeSpot shadowgenerator:(VRayShadow()) castShadows:true isSelected:true
for i = 1 to 5 do
(
f.baseobject.castShadows = not f.baseobject.castShadows
windows.processPostedMessages()
sleep 0.5
)exactly as reference says:
.castShadows Boolean default: false
When on, the light will cast shadows on objects.
NoteIn 3ds Max , all node-level properties are searched before base-object-level properties. If a base-object property has the same name as a node-level property, you need to search in the base object for the base object property. You should use . baseObject.castShadows instead