Know of a script for controlling lights?

[tricky]

I have a scene with three zones, each with their own lighting systems which are a mixture of vray lights and max lights. I only want to have the lights switched on in the area I am rendering. Its a pain to keep manually turning lights off in the areas I am not rendering, and lights on in the areas that I am.

Anyone know of a script where I can just select a whole bunch of lights and tell them all to turn on or off at the same time?

[Pixelcon]

You can't put them on layers or use scene states? Surely it couldnt be hard to even script an on/off script and use layers or selection sets to have the groups. It would be a nice addition to have "groups" in the vray light lister now that you bring this up...

[DanielBrew]

I wrote something like that once...

try (destroyDialog LightSwitch) catch ()

rollout lightSwitch "LightSwitch"
(
	button lightsOn "Lights On" pos:[5,10]
	button lightsOff "Lights Off" pos:[90,10]

	on lightsOn pressed do
	(
		if $ != undefined then
		(
			for l in $ where superClassOf l == light do
			(
				if isProperty l #on then l.on = true
				if isProperty l #enabled then l.enabled = true
			)
		)
	)
	
	on lightsOff pressed do
	(
		if $ != undefined then
		(
			for l in $ where superClassOf l == light do
			(
				if isProperty l #on then l.on = false
				if isProperty l #enabled then l.enabled = false
			)
		)
	)
)
createDialog lightSwitch

[Neilg]

I've done this with layers and 'render hidden lights' turned off.