June 1st, 2005

abLightTweaker 1.5


abLightTweaker is a streamlined light manager that offers a great deal of flexibility and control when setting up lights.   Some of the features include the ability to:

  • Easily adjust the most important light attributes.
  • Save light setups, as "Light Sets," to either a shelf button or optionVars.
  • Activate/deactivate/solo lights with real time viewport feedback.
  • Assign individual lights adjustable false colors to determine their contribution to a scene.
  • Adjust intensity globally, or on specified lights.
  • Copy and paste light colors.
  • Easily Export light related overrides to Andrew Chapman's Render Passes plug in (in version 1.2 only).


Updates

06.02.05:   Added three levels of attribute detail to save: 1:Basic, 2:Common, 3:Extended (Mental Ray).  Inactive lights on save now stay off on restore.

06.06.05:   Can now create overrides for Andrew Chapman's Render Passes for Maya plug in.  Added other various bits of functionality.

08.24.05:   Updated previously connectControlled popUpMenus to work in Maya 7.  Removed Render Pass plug in support in this version with the upgraded capabilities of Render Layers.

09.26.05:   Added "Drop SpotLight" to tools menu.  Use it to quickly create a spotlight at your current persp view camera's position and orientation.  You can also call it directly from the command line with "abLiTwDropSpot".

06.08.06:   v1.4: Cleaned up some of the light linking bugs.  Now works with lights in sets.

09.12.06:   v1.5: Updated to work in Maya 8.

comments

noolloon
November 11th, 2005 said:

Hi, I like your abLightTweaker 1.3.1!!!!! I wont tell you because abLightTweaker 1.3.1 dont create the control of more than 23 lights and this is importan for me because I have 40 lights in my scene. If you have some information please email me at noolloon@hotmail.com

P.D: Sorry for my English, I am from Barcelona (spain)

crumbly
November 16th, 2005 said:

Hi noolloon,

I tested abLightTweaker out on my computer with thirty lights in a scene illuminating a sphere and it worked for me, although the UI was really slow to update.  Unfortunately I didn't really build it with that many lights in mind, so it doesn't scale very well.

Sorry I can't be of more help.


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"abLightTweaker 1.5" was posted on June 1st, 2005 under Mel Scripts.  It was created using Maya.

This entry was last updated on September 12th, 2006.

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