Boy, do I feel stupid. Well, ignorant. Like a newbie, ya ken?

All this work on wiring together a bunch of parameters via the panel of a Group, and all I needed to do was to take a fresh look at Custom Parameter Palettes. I was heavy into Poser some 20 years ago, and then circumstances happened and I didn't touch it At All for 20 years. But this stuff is way beyond what I worked with back then. Anyway, here's the Custom Parameter Palette I've put together. And they're so easy to setup!! Also discovered that you can edit the pz3 file in notepad (or whatever) and change the name. This one has been renamed to Lighting Palette. The on/off and the intensity multiplier are the only ones that are more complicated than drag/drop of a dial onto the palette.

The on/off ones have a range of 0 to 1 with a min of zero and a max of one and a sensitivity of one and Force Limits checked, turning it into the logical equivalent of a checkbox. Then the intensity of My Light has a Value Operation added which multiplies its value by the value of the on/off dial with a scaling factor of one. This allows for the light to be turned on or off without affecting any of the other values impacting intensity, so, effectively, the intensity settings are remembered across on/off actions. I thought this was clever, but I'm imagining that everyone already knew all about this. My wife tells me I was the last person on the planet to see Lion King, so, you know, I have a record of being behind the curve occassionally.

Still haven't installed Sasha, but I'm definitely getting glimpses of ways to accomplish the eye thing.

The Lighting Palette: