Global Light Control

[Jake]

Martin,

I'm working on a project now that has a bunch ofd lights. I want to use radiosity but it tkes to long for the time being, but I did render one overnight and it looked great. But again it I need it to be a bit faster. So, I switch to ambient which works fine too, but all the lights are a bit underpowered becuase I don't have the radiosity bounce.

It would be nice if there was a global light control that would change the intensity of all the lights in the scene by a percentage, up or down. This setting would keep the relative light values the same, adjust the overall intensities.

Does this sound crazy? I know Lightwave has this feature.

[Martin]

Hi,
no that doesn't sound crazy. That task would be a perfect job for a script. The last month I rewrote a lot of code under the hood to get closer to a finalization of the Javascript API. Once I'm done with the Javascript stuff writing a script which does that job shouldn't take more than 50 lines.

By,
Martin

[Jake]

50 Lines!!!?

Might as well be the Gutenberg Bible as far as I'm concerned, but, for genuis like you Martin-piece of cake. Can't wait.

[Martin]

Hi,
maybe I could use that task for a example script. :wink:

By,
Martin

[PurpleLizzard]

is that what the "scale light intensity" script does?

John

[Martin]

Hi,
yes you are right. That is that script.

By,
Martin