Beer glass scene creation
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# 1 19-05-2007 , 11:44 PM
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Instancing lights

Hello,
IS there any short simple way of instancing point or spot lights in a way that ANY OR ALL the parameters change, when I change them in any light (as they are instances).
For eg. I can change intensity, color and cone angles of all spot lights at one time. This would be very helpful in creating/ using lightrigs.

Hope my query is clear.

Thanks in advance.

# 2 25-05-2007 , 10:44 PM
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yes you could do it with expressions. You could create one master light and have every other light simply get that attribute and assign it to themselves. Should be a very simple thing to setup.

Have a look at connectAttr, getAttr and expressions and see what you can come up with.

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# 3 05-06-2007 , 07:27 PM
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Thanks Alan,
havent used maya that much , but will try to fig it out.

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