Hi,
I am not very experienced in maxscript so maybe I don’t do the right thing but I try to make a script within which I would change the state of the afterburn object shadows check box (because after burn light properties can’t be changed in the light lister).
But I just try to type exactly what the listener gives me when I do that action in th UI and I get a system exception:
$Spot01.UseObjectShadows = off
** system exception **
And it does not work neither when I try to make a loop like this:
for i in $ do
i.UseObjectShadows = off
– Error occurred in i loop
– Frame:
– i: $Spot02
– called in i loop
– Frame:
– i: $Spot02
** system exception **
Could any one explain me what I’m doing wrong please?
you may not be doing anything wrong – it may simply not be supported to set that from maxscript (though it would be odd).
Try ‘showProperties $’ with the light selected and see if there’s perhaps other methods of accessing the property in question… it may have an interface as well (showInterface $)… no idea as I don’t have afterburn myself; but in general, if the property exists (and it does, or it’d throw an error about that property not existing), and it expects a boolean value (which ‘off’ is, although you can try ‘false’, or ‘0’ in case it expects an integer), then the syntax you used should be correct.
Hi ZeBoxx2, thank you for your answer.
But I already tried to see the list of properties and YES it is there. It just seems I can’t access it for some reason. I also already tried false and 0 instead of off without success neither…
I have a scene with tons of lights and I would like to change this checkbox at will… I can’t believe it is not possible any other way than changing every single one one after the other…
I’ll keep trying.