Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Parenting Lights

baggettbear opened this issue on Mar 04, 2006 ยท 17 posts


maclean posted Sun, 05 March 2006 at 7:01 AM

Infinite lights can't be parented in poser. The trick is to convert them to spots, parent them, then convert them back to infinites. Another way to do it is to use a Null figure as the parent. This has a few advantages. You may not want to see the parent prop, so instead of making it invisible, use a Null. Also, a Null will accept poses, so you can set up pose files and apply them to the lights, which can be quite useful for changing intensity, color, etc. Beware one thing with parented lights. When you resave them to the library, poser does NOT save the Shadow and MapSize channels correctly. This is a known bug since P4 which has never been fixed. It saves these 2 channels with the default settings - Shadow=1.00/MapSize=256. It's pretty annoying because you have to go into the cr2 and edit them. mac