Usally Max dialogue boxes fidn their way to the maon screen after a second monitor is removed - not so with the vray lightlister.
Is there some max script that I can save somewhere to bring it back to the main screen?
thanks!
I believe there is a script that moves all windows to default monitor somewhere in scriptspot, give me a second to find it.
Furthermore I don’t think that this only applies to LightLister, I very often have such issue with other 3dsMax windows as well.
Hmmm, I found some but doesn’t seem to work with Max 2017 which looks normal considering that scripts are released several years ago.
OK let’s try to following, activate LightLister windows from the Tools menu then use windows shortcut to move windows which is holding Win button and pressing some of the arrows a few times, left/right or up/down.
Let me know if that helps or not.
Yeah those old scripts wouldn’t reference vray Light Lister window anyway, no matter what version of Max it was.
Incidentally I am still on Max 2015 - but in any case, Vray Light Lister doesn’t get a separate window which I can control using that method (like the VFB for example) - it’s a dialogue not a window.
So the method you are suggesting - I can’t do it. It has to be a script I feel.
OK Svetlozar - do you happen to know the script to control the vray light lister because I would like to be able to at least have crude script to to it’s position back to 0,0
If you click the light lister button (this will make it the active “front” window), then before you click anywhere else hit ALT+SPACEBAR (brings up the windows menu, note this will all be off screen), then click M (for move) then use arrow keys to move your window left or right, the window will now be locked to your cursor so anywhere you click on screen the window will appear.
Hope it helps
Sorry Gavin - but as I said earlier up the thread - I don’t get the vray lightlister as a separate Window. It’s a dialogue not a window, and they don’t get their own window control in windows like, say, the VFB does.
Odd, not sure what is different on your side.
I often switch from multi monitor to single on my laptop and that how I get mine back all the time. Curve editor, Material editor, light lister, works on all of them.
I’m using windows 10 if that makes any difference.
Windows 10 and max 2016 here, and this is how I have done it for years, so it has been possible in versions of max as far back as I can remember.
What version of max are you running?
I’m Running Max 2015 and Windows 10
It might be because I have set Windows up to not give every single dialogue box a separate window - I don’t like hugely cluttered task bars.
In any case, I just need to know the script.
Temporarily switch Windows back to allowing separate windows, use Arrows trick to find LightLister, then switch windows back to how you had it.
I had this problem before, Using the arrows was the only thing that worked, tried a couple script people suggested, they didn’t work.
I’m surprised no one from Chaos has just gone ahead and replied with whatever the maxscript is.
The scripts I mentioned are not developed by ChaosGroup so probably not many people of our team heard about them and obviously I have missed that thread for a while.
Here are the scripts:
Please note that they are pretty old and I cannot guarantee that they will work at all.
Furthermore if the LightLister is not a separate window I don’t think that those are going go work.
Mate, none of these work, as you pointed out before - they are so old and they don’t feature VRAY.
Is there any way you can just check out what the maxscript command is for the VRAY light lister?
Either it exists and it’s a simple case, or it doesn’t - in which case it is absolutely something that is needed to be fixed in the next VRAY update.
Hi,
You can write and execute this one
vrayLLister.LightInspectorFloater.pos=[200,300]
in MAXScript Listener.
For easier use the command could be attached to custom created button:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GppYcDq0Fg
Anna Zaharieva
That’s exactly what I’m looking for…
Brilliant - although I was wondering why it didn’t work at first, I had to restart max for some reason… but yeah. Good skills - thanks very much!
I wonder, if you still have the information at hand, whether it might be worth dumping all the Vray dialogue scripts into this post?
Then anyone who needs it can find it - I might even upload a script to scriptspot?