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How to change light type from Point to Infinite

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JeanPhilippe

JeanPhilippe
Posted: 30 April 2012 09:55 AM

Total Posts: 18
Joined: 15 January 2009 04:34 PM

I have many lights I need to change from Point to Infinite in each of my scene and keep all other parameters the same (color, intensity, position, rotation, parent...).
Is it possible to get this done in Python simply?
Thanks.

Replies: 1

Hi Newt,

You can do it in Python. Simply query the scene for all the lights, change the attribute LightType to kFBLightTypeInfinite.
See script below.
Hope that helps. :)

from pyfbsdk import *

lLightList = FBSystem().Scene.Lights

for i in range(0, lLightList.__len__()):
print lLightList.__getitem__(i).Name
lLightList.__getitem__(i).LightType = FBLightType.kFBLightTypeInfinite

Author: siml

Replied: 01 May 2012 09:10 PM