postapulcino opened this issue on Mar 07, 2003 ยท 31 posts
STORM3 posted Sat, 08 March 2003 at 8:25 AM
Hi postapulcino
Most Global lights sets I have checked are spherical arrays. Essentially they are arrays of infinite lights.
Some time ago I asked ockham to write two python scripts to help people edit global lighting sets (which he very kindly made available for free). They are:
It means when you have a global lighting set it converts them back to spots giving a spherical layout and visa-versa.
Here is a link to them:
http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1057447
I think they are also in freestuff.
Daz global lights are essentially the same with one exception. Some of them have a spherical infinite light array with a few spotlights included. But this presents no problem as the spots can be deleted, the infinite lights converted to a spotlight spherical array, edited, converted back to infinite lights and the deleted spots rebuilt by hand.
So this should then be possible for those using Pro-pak and Poser 5 which can use Python.
One additional note: Many light sets have the properties of the lights changed from visible to hidden. This can be easily changed by going into the hierarchy editor, and putting an x in the show lights box. Each light can then be made visible by clicking on it.
Hope this helps
Regards
STORM