Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Here's a simple .lt file to switch lights on

maclean opened this issue on May 09, 2005 ยท 8 posts


lesbentley posted Tue, 10 May 2005 at 4:05 PM

Thanks for the file Mac. Please bare with me, I have a few things to spout off about. First, I think you made a typo Mac. The file extentiom for Poser lights is 'lt2' not 'lt' (at least in P4 or 5). Second, the file works fine, but if there are any spots in the doc they will be turned off by the aplication of this file, as indeed any light will be turned off by the aplication of an lt2, if it is not specified in the lt2. But there is a solution! Save the file to a pose folder with a pz2 extention, then it will not turn off other lights in the document. Hand hade pz2 files can be used to pose lights, that is to say alter their paramiters, and they will not turn off other lights, but they should not be used to add lights. If you want to add lights without turning others off, do it from a pp2 file. Without going into all the details, there are two ways to make such a file. One is to copy the lights and associated shadow cams from a pz3, the other is to modify an lt2 file. In either case you should use a declaration for the lights and cameras, and add a 'doc' section to load them, the internal names should also be changed to avoid conflict with lights that may already exist in the Poser document. An easier way to save and load light sets that will not turn off other lights is to download my 'MinFig.cr2' from the Free Stuff, parent your light set to it and resave it with a new name. You should still change the internal names of the lights and cameras to avoid conflicts. Bob, there are pz2s to turn spots off and on in my 'SpotLight Utility Pose Pack 1 (P4)', pluss a lot of other stuff (in the Free Stuff). Cheers all, Les.