Controlling the intensity of a bunch of lights

[Niklas Collin]

You select all the lights and adjust the intensity :) Works in LW9, not in LW8.

[The-G-Man]

I didn't realise that LW9 could now do this. Many thanks Niklas.

[murcielago]

Use the scene editor.

[monovich]

wow. I had no idea you could do that now in 9. cool!

I used to link all the lights to a master light with the cannel follower in the envelope (works for intensity, color, and falloff, etc. Then I would control the master light with a slider. The trick was you had to set up the master, then the slider, then the slave, then clone the slave, otherwise you'd have a ton of manual labor manually connecting all the slave lights to the master.

I guess it's sort of moot now anyway.

[VirtualFM]

wow. I had no idea you could do that now in 9. cool!

I used to link all the lights to a master light with the cannel follower in the envelope
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The trick was you had to set up the master, then the slider, then the slave, then clone the slave, otherwise you'd have a ton of manual labor manually connecting all the slave lights to the master.


It would be better to use an expression tied to the slider. So it would be just a case of applying that expression to all the Light's Intensity.

If this light intensity manipulation happens all the time I still prefer this method than having to select al the lights all the time (even with selection sets).

[monovich]

my knowedge of expressions is admittedly nil. I'd love to take some time and learn them, though I suspect they may change when LW gets that core rewrite.

in the mean time, I continue on with brute force.

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