Light lister is a great tool to help stay organized, but…

I wish:

1. You could sort alphabetically like windows explorer

2. Use it as a selection tool and select more than one light

3. Automatically refresh when lights are added or deleted. It does a half-refresh when deleted. The light is grayed out, but stays on the list.

4. Be able to show only the lights that are turned on. Useful when you have a large list of lights and have only a few turned on. (sorting ability would also help with this)

5. Allow me to widen the “Name” column so I’m not limited to viewing only 10 characters.

Alright...I feel better now.

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all of those sound like a great idea to me also…

have you checked scriptspot for a maxscript on light control...there maybe a cool script that does what you need on there already....i’ll have a look after lunch and report back myself too!

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maybe the scene explorer that comes with Max 2008 will have this kind of sorting/filtering/management capability ?

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Josef Wienerroither 23 September 2007 11:56 AM

maybe the scene explorer that comes with Max 2008 will have this kind of sorting/filtering/management capability ?

That’s my hope. I’ve written light lister type stuff before, and let me tell you, from a programming perspective, there’s nothing more boring to write than a conversion script or something that displays every parameter of an object :) If the scene explorer means I never have to write stuff like this again, I will be so happy :)

- Neil

Josef Wienerroither 23 September 2007 11:56 AM

maybe the scene explorer that comes with Max 2008 will have this kind of sorting/filtering/management capability ?

When is 2008 set to be released to subscribers?  Anyone heard?

Max Design 2012 SP2 / Win 7 Pro
NVidia Quadro FX 4800 x 2 (non sli)
HP Z800 - 2 Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz; 36 GB ram

When is 2008 set to be released to subscribers?  Anyone heard?

Autodesk has announced it as Oct 07 first week......

I agree completely with Pyro777’s 5 items in the first post. Most importantly, give is a ‘name’ field that is expandable and or one that automatically resiizes to the longest string.

I spend huge amounts of time all over Max expanding fields out that don’t remember where I left them. It really eats up a lot of clicks.

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