Controlling Multiple VRay Lights

[Infrared digital]

I have a scene with nearly 200 lights and want to control about 100 of them from one input. They couldn't be instanced because they are different sizes so, is there a way to do this ?

Thanks

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[super gnu]

parameter wiring?

[Infrared digital]

What is parameter wiring ?

[super gnu]

3dsmax help system is your friend

[joconnell]

What type of thing do you want to do? Basic maxscript is handy for this type of thing too. For example if you select all of the lights you want to affect and open the maxscript listener and typing in $.multiplier = 20 then hitting enter will set the multiplier of all the selected lights to 20. In this case $ represents what ever you have selected and it'll throw an error if there's any objects that don't have a multiplier parameter. Stuff like $.size0 = 5 will set the width of a plane light to 5, $.size1 = 5 will set the height to 5 and so on. Very handy for all this type of thing. There's stuff like Colin Senners vray light lister should work too!

In what way do you want to control them - do you want to be able to animate them or just be able to make changes to the lot quickly?

[Lupaz]

thanks joconnell. nice tip.