Esteemed Poser Colleagues and Friends: You aren't going to believe me when I tell you that I've been using Poser for 3 years now and I still haven't resolved this basic problem, but it's time for me to make a confession: I am beyond aggrivated with light sets that have 30 bazillion lights in them because I don't know how to delete them - except one at a time. That's right, I've been deleting lights by hand for three years and I'm finally tired enough of it that I'm ready to ask for help. How is it that Poser is in its sixth release now and there still isn't a "Delete All Lights" button?! (Or am I just missing some obvious button that's been there in the interface all along?) Please tell me what I'm doing wrong before I have to be hospitalized for insanity and carpal tunnel syndrome from deleting thousands of lights for hours at a time. Ahhhhhhhhh . . . . . --Invidia

can't check as I'm at work, but have at look in the Python scripts that ship with Poser - I 99% sure there's a 'delete all lights' one under one of the tabs

Search the freestuff for ockham's light panel. It will delete, change or swap from raytrace to depth map any light in the scene, including multiple selections. Works fine with P5 or 6.

Poser 5 doesn't seem to have that script but Poser 6 does. Which version are you using? I assume its 6. From the main menu choose Window/Python Scripts. In the Python Scripts window click "Utility Funcs" Then click "Delete all lights". It will ask you to confirm before doing it. If you don't have it, put this in a file and run it: import poser for l in poser.Scene().Lights(): l.Delete()

also do a search for "reset lights" in free stuff and there are a couple there as well

Attached Link: http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/

So the delete lights scripts actully work for you folks? Mine is very inconsistent, and often corrupts my .pz3.... I've tried several versions of Ockham's and the one that comes with P6.

Thanks everyone for your advice and your help. Now I'm having just one other problem - the same problem that linkdink seems to be having. The script that I have seems to be locking up my computer and not really working quite right. How is it that Curious Labs has the nerve to even ship this product with such a glaring error in it? I mean, they've had plenty of opportunity to fix this by now. I'm really angry that I have given them hundreds of my hard-earned dollars over the years and they can't even fix something so basic as this. Of all the no-lights scripts out there, which one are you guys having the best luck with? I am ready to pull out my hair here.

I don't bother deleting lights. I use premade lights and try many before I settle on the one I want to use. What I applied and don't use, I just leave. I wouldn't know what to delete or keep, so it's just safer to leave everything.

Acadia, the real problem I'm having -- which leads me to try the delete lights scripts -- is occassionaly I will apply a lightset, and instead of correctly replacing the previous set, it seems to result in some kind of combination of the two light sets, with some lights not properly turned on/off.

Sometimes I get total blackness when I apply lights over lights. But I just keep clicking away with other light sets until one works. Not optimal, but it's the only way I know.