ok so i am just tring to make a simple script to turn lights on and off.
i can make a vray light go on and off but not a max default one.
i also know that max and vray lights have different settings for things and have taken that into account but still nothing.
for i in $* do
– if classof i == VRayLight then i.on = off
if classof i == VRayLight then i.on = on
that works
for i in $* do
if (Superclassof n == Light) then i.on = Disable
if classof i == Omni_Light then i.on = enable
if classof i == Light then i.on = enable
if (namePrefix == “nitelite”) then lt.enabled = Enable
none of these work and i dont know why… can anyone help me?
also the script lister is not erroring out
enable and disable are not valid boolean values, so none of the second part attempts would work. You need true|false or on|off passed to the .on property.
Then there are a couple of lights that do not have an .on property – for example Area lights and Brazil lights. These would need special case handling.
You don’t have to loop through all scene nodes – there is a built-in Lights object set containing all lights in the scene.
So for the general case, you could say
for o in Lights where hasProperty o "on" do o.on = false
or
for o in Lights do try(o.on = true)catch()
These should work for 95% of the cases. For the special cases, you might need a classof test as you did in your Vray test.
The following creates a single light of each class installed on your machine:
for o in light.classes do
try( execute (o as string + " pos:(random [-100,-100,-100] [100,100,100])"))catch()
Then you can run the OFF code from above and see which ones remain enabled. Then select one of those and use
show $
to see what the properties are really called…
wow thanks bobo!!
i really appreciate the assistance… i have been tring to revers engineer other scripts but cant find any that deal with lights
that all seems to be working – one element that is needed.
i need this to only operate on an object whos name startes with “nitelite”.
works, all the lights in the scene <thank you>, minus mental ray ones <dont care>
for o in Lights where hasProperty o “on” do
– if (namePrefix == “nitelite”) then o.on = true
o.on = true
no work.
for o in Lights where hasProperty o “on” do
if (namePrefix == “nitelite”) then o.on = true
–o.on = true
im using the “namePrefix” because it is already part of the script so i thought it should work, but i am doing somthing wronge
Nameprefix is most probably a user variable created by the script you were looking at, it is not a built-in Max function or property.
for o in Lights where matchPattern o.name pattern:"nitelite*" do try(o.on = false)catch()
for o in $nitelite* where hasProperty o "on" do o.on = false
you are a god!
thank you many many times sir, if i ever hear anyone looking for a scripter ill pm you…
though your probly happy at frantic
CHEERS!!!