See if I can phrase tthis right. Lets say you have the default lights there are three of them in the light control panel. You click on a light preset of say a four light setup. Three lights are replaced by the four and you see just four lights in the control panel thats ok. I notice sometimes when I click a light preset instead of the 3 lights being replaced by the 4, that it just turns off the 3 and adds the 4 to it. Now there are 7 lights total with 3 off and the new 4 on. This only happens with certain light presets(ie ones downloaded from the web) Like one that I have are 8 light setups and if I try say 3 of them I wind up with 24 lights in the control panel. Why is this how can I stop it?

There are some python scrips in freestuff to delete all of the lights in your scene. Its usually a good idea to do that before you select the set. Poser is not so good in its handling of this issue, as it is sometimes erratic. Deleting the lights first seems a reasonable solution.

Of course, to use the Python solution, you would have to have either Poer 4 Pro or Poser 5, as Python doesn't work in plain old Poser 4.03. But there are loads of useable python scripts (in free stuff) to delete lights, change them or do all sorts of nifty things with them. And yes, deleting existing lights before adding a new lightset is a good idea in general.

Attached Link: Python Homepage

Wow, C1rcle :o) I didn't know you could load Python script for Poser outside Poser :o) This must be great news for all the peeps on P4 (or perhaps not news L Perhaps I'm the only one who didn't know :o} )

actually I don't think it's common knowledge, but it is mentioned at least once on the Daz website, although how well it works is anyones guess. There's quite a few commands in the poser version that don't exist in the full version.

Thanks for the info. I have been deleting the lights by hand already. I don't have poser pro, but if I can load python run the scripts I'll give it try.

Well I got the scripts and python. And I dont have the faintest idea how to run the scripts from poser. Any help would be great. Ill look around CL and see what info I can find.

WelI did some looking around. I'm using poser 4.03 on a mac. I got python for the mac. I don't think its going to work. I'll just delete them by hand . Thanks for the help!