Let me explain a bit further.

I'm trying to do a render using Forest Superior from Daz. It's a marvelously detailed forest, and looks quite nice. It also grinds my high-end system to a halt.

I finally did a little testing and feel sure4 a big part of this is all of the pine tree branches that have light emitter turned on. This strikes me as thge functional equivalent of having 10,000 transmapped hair figures in the scene. 

So...

Is there a python script to toggle ALL of the emitters off so I then could turn back on just the ones I need to use for my characters?

Or am I full of hot air on this one? (as usual)

Quote - Let me explain a bit further.

I'm trying to do a render using Forest Superior from Daz. It's a marvelously detailed forest, and looks quite nice. It also grinds my high-end system to a halt.

I finally did a little testing and feel sure4 a big part of this is all of the pine tree branches that have light emitter turned on. This strikes me as thge functional equivalent of having 10,000 transmapped hair figures in the scene. 

So...

Is there a python script to toggle ALL of the emitters off so I then could turn back on just the ones I need to use for my characters?

Or am I full of hot air on this one? (as usual)

heh I asked this about a week ago. >.<

aaaaaaaaaaand

cant remember the answer THOUGH I do remember scene fixer I think does it.

That is a good thing to add to the Poser 10 wishlist over on RDNA.

Here's the link to the other thread with a bit of an explanation of sorts: 

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2866661

Here is a link to Snarlygribbly's scripts: 

http://snarlygribbly.org/3d/forum/

I don't believe snarly has a script yet for turning off the light emitters.

hborre is right, Snarly's script doesn't have that.  My bad.  I had to fire up Poser to see.

Once again.. Take a look at netherworks scene toy .. over at rdna.  It may or may not suit your needs. But does include the option to turn off emitters on the selected listed items.  You didn't state whether or not it had to be free.. soooo. shrug

snarly's Pose2Lux can turn off light emitters back into the Poser scene - or at least it sort of kills the Ambient channels that cause the light emission. Just thinking out loud ...

It's not a thing to do a song and dance about... I had a scene with about 50 objects that all needed to be turned off. I did it using the heirchy editor to select each object in turn and then manually unched the LE boxes.  Resaved the scene and now it's all good. I just wondered if there was a shortcut I couldn't find.

No biggie.

I've had a quick look at a simple cr2 file dating from 2010 and couldn't find anything relating to IDL or light-emitting.

However, I turned off 'light emitter' and saved a copy back to the library. Original file = 24kb, copy file = 32.4kb, so there's a lot more info saved with the copy. Here's one of the key bits:

Original:

endPoint 0 0.12714 0.399425
origin 0 0.22714 0.399425
orientation 0 0 0
displayOrigin 0
displayMode USEPARENT
customMaterial 0
locked 0
backfaceCull 0
visibleInReflections 1
visibleInRender 1
displacementBounds 0
shadingRate 0.2
smoothPolys 1

Copy (with light emitting turned off):

endPoint 0 0.12714 0.399425
origin 0 0.22714 0.399425
orientation 0 0 0
displayOrigin 0
displayMode USEPARENT
customMaterial 0
locked 0
backfaceCull 0
visibleInReflections 1
visibleInRender 1
visibleInCamera 1
visibleInIDL 0
displacementBounds 0
shadingRate 0.2
smoothPolys 1

I've put the relevant property in bold. 

So the question is, does Poser add the extra properties when it loads or only when you save it? I suspect it's the former, which is good news from the point of view of writing a simple python script to turn the 'light emitter" property off.

My python skills are next to zero so I won't have anything any time soon: perhaps someone to whom this would be second nature could have a go?

Good info, there!

I'd love a quick script to turn off all light emitters, so I can go back and enable the ones I want. Or, better yet, a script with a menu that lets me click off Light Emitter for every object in the scene and keep the ones checked that I want..

We can dream, can't we?