Proposed changes to V-Ray Light Lister (with example)

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I photoshoped an image illustrating two proposed changes to the vray light lister.

1. Taking queues from After Effects. A temporary light isolator ( on only selected lights )
2. More space for vray light name.
3. Even better if we could scale the vray light window to our sizable liking. Often, I only need to see the light name and on/off button.

Scenario / explanation.
There are situtations where i have 20 lights & only using 6 of them.. but want to test each one of the six ( 1/6 ) individually to check how its illuminating the scene. Particulalry in product studio shots. And I always forget which of the 6/20 I was using. I don’t want to make selection sets but rather a quick preview of what 1 (isolated) light is doing. If any of use use After Effects, you’ll know what I mean.

This would be particularly helpful in vray RT, for quick light checks, shadow casting, etc.

Would like to hear your opinions.

Proposed Light Lister.jpg
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Current LightLister.jpg
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And as I mentioned in another thread.

4. The ability to SHIFT SELECT multiple light via the light lister. ( Shift + ticking the rectangular boxes on the very left )

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Interesting, but Did you tried to place them into layers and uncheck “hidden lights” from the global switches rollout?, just asking because i use diferent lights positions and power per camera.

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Hiding lights doesn’t affect Vray RT. Hidden or not, vray RT will still use them. I could be wrong though. Regardless, I don’t want to have to hide lights as its a bit of a pain. A tick box would be much more efficient :wink:

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Hm, even if you turn off the “Render hidden lights” option in the production renderer settings?

Best regards,
Vlado

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1. Taking queues from After Effects. A temporary light isolator ( on only selected lights )

So essentially you want a separate “On” option for V-Ray RT, is that correct?

Best regards,
Vlado

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Hey Vlado, yeah for both VRAY-RT and Production Render. It’s like a temporary ON for selected light(s). Particularly useful for VRAY-RT.

I know you can hide lights and make selection sets but it’s a little more time consuming. I think, this would be a less “intrusive” option.

And please please please make the v-ray light-lister “scalable”. I’m thinking of getting a third screen just to facilitate all the little windows. :slight_smile: If I could scale it to show the very left options that would already save lots of space.

Thanks guys.