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JasonA
12-15-2002, 05:14 AM
Hi folks,

I'm wondering if there is a way to get two spotlights to share the same intensity decay curve. I have one spot light setup and the decay curve set. But I need several other spotlights to be identical and I wanted to find a way to have all of the spot lights use the same intensity decay curve (rather than re-creating that curve for each light).

I've trying to connect the attributes in hypergraph, but I'm not figuring out how to connect the items properly. I keep getting stuck with only one spot light using the decay curve at a time. if it helps I can woop together an example file and show the connections in hypergraph

Any suggestions?
svenip
12-15-2002, 10:46 AM
window - general editors - connection editor
JasonA
12-15-2002, 06:14 PM
hmm I guess I wasn't very specific. I realize that I have to use the connection editor, thats what I've been doing the entire time. The problem is in making the specific connections in the "circuit" if you will.

I've attached a pic from hypergraph to better illustrate what I'm talking about.

I've got Spot01 all setup and the intensity curve defined. I created Spot02, and also created a default intensity curve for Spot02 (which is a junk curve). (see the piccie)
http://home.attbi.com/~prwsjl/hyper1.gif

Now I want Spot02 to use the same intensity curve as Spot01. I've tried rebuilding the connections in various ways, but it seems I can't have more than one input/ouput per connection so no matter what only one light works at a time. Everytime I try to add a connection, Maya breaks the former one. aarrgh.

The closest thing I came to was this (below) but it still doesn't work.
http://home.attbi.com/~prwsjl/hyper2.gif

I've attached the file too, its just a basic example but if someone could take a look it'd be really appreciated..

the file --> spot_decay.mb (http://home.attbi.com/~prwsjl/spot_decay.mb)
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