Is there a way to connect two things together; making them an instance? I have about twenty lights and three of them are orphans. I would simply like to make the other three part of the instance group.

Yep - so if you pick whatever you want to be the master object - lets say it’s an object called “vraylight01”. You pick all your other lights and in the maxscript listener type “$.baseobject = $vraylight01” without the commas - swap vraylight01 with the name of your master object.

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Already answered, but the little tool is nice to have in your toolbox: Same Thing as joeconnel Maxscript line, but with UIé Copy Replace | ScriptSpot

[image] Long render times for interior architectural renders Yep - so if you pick whatever you want to be the master object - lets say it’s an object called “vraylight01”. You pick all your other lights and in the maxscript listener type “$.baseobject = $vraylight01” without the commas - swap vra…

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Awesome, thanks![quote=“kristianturner85, post:3, topic:48941, username:kristianturner85”] Already answered, but the little tool is nice to have in your toolbox: Same Thing as joeconnel Maxscript line, but with UIé Copy Replace | ScriptSpot [/quote]

The baseObject is like the Shape node from Maya, Max has a transform Object which has a baseObject, Maya has a Transform Node and a Shape Node. Max hides it, Maya shows it. It’s how the instancing system works. I wish we had a way to visualise this in Max!

I have tried the copy/paste script, but it wasn’t working for the lights target.

Ah - that could be a bit of a pain in the arse since a light and it’s target are two separate nodes in 3dsmax.

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glorybound November 8, 2015, 1:18am 3

wow. I was sure there wasn’t a way. Thanks!

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