create spotlight with the scripteditor

[Ocean Size]

Well, I'm glad you posted this question, because now I know how to do this, after a little experimentation.

Enter this command into the script editor and it should create a spotlight named sky_spot.

spotLight -n sky_spot;

[metos]

thank you, very much :bounce:

[mark_wilkins]

Be careful, though, because the name you ask for is not necessarily the name Maya will give the light -- for example if you ask for a light called mySpot and there's already a mySpot in the scene.

In a script, the careful way to do this is to make an array variable to hold the actual node names associated with the light. Maya gives your script both the names of the transform and the shape node that make up the light:

string $light_name[] = `spotLight -n mySpot`;


print $light_name[0]; // transform node's name
print $light_name[1]; // shape node's name

-- Mark

[metos]

on more question :

to select (by script editor) a mental ray render

in : render/render using/ mental ray (and not maya software)


when a swich it to mental ray
there is nothing added in the script editor command executed.


how I can do il in a script ?

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