A simple solution to editing lights in scenes

[tomot]

A Scene may contain many lights, most are always hidden by other geometry. Instead of constantly
1. zooming out
2. find a Light object
3. clicking to edit Light object
4. zoom back to previous camera view.

It would be more practical to have all lights in a Scene to appear on one central list.
I would add them on the Material Editor Tree. Here the user would be to able change the name of each light,
just like he/she does now for materials. Simply, click to edit each light on the list, and don't forget, delete ..... Voila!

cheers!

[thomthom]

Re: A simple solution to editing lights in scenes

Yes - an light editor would be nice.

What works as an alternative is to use the Outliner and use the filter to get a list of V-Ray lights.

[40th]

Re: A simple solution to editing lights in scenes

+1

What works as an alternative is to use the Outliner and use the filter to get a list of V-Ray lights.

This is actually what I do when I want to edit/find/select a vray light, using SU's Outliner.

[dkendig]

Re: A simple solution to editing lights in scenes

The outliner works fine, we had toyed around with the idea of a light editor, but really the outliner works great.

[thomthom]

Re: A simple solution to editing lights in scenes

The outliner works fine, we had toyed around with the idea of a light editor, but really the outliner works great.

I wouldn't say "great". What would be great would be to have a window with a list of the light and their properties that let you select multiple lights and adjust properties in bulk on the selected lights.

[stinkie]

Re: A simple solution to editing lights in scenes

Yes, being able to adjust multiple lights at the same time would indeed be great.

[21D_cg]

Re: A simple solution to editing lights in scenes

+1 for the light editor (with multi-light editing)

[davidlouis]

Re: A simple solution to editing lights in scenes

I have a tip to help with multi light editing....

You can 'envelope' a vray light in a blank component that way if you have say an office floor with a load of same lights, or a group of like downlighters etc etc you can adjust them globally by editing just one of the instances... if you need a bit more individuality, just make some of them unique and off you go....

Obviously this is only good for similar light types...

This does not mean that i wouldn't want to see a light editor of some kind... but just a work around in the interim...

Hope this helps a bit

Dave