Universal light dimmer

[tapsnap]

So I have often wanted to dim all the lights in a scene all by the same amount, but there is no universal light dimmer in Lightwave, is there. Well in fact there is.

Go to the lights proporties and click on the E button on the right of the light intensity box. You are transported to the graph editor, where the light intensity for that light appears in the channel bin and in the graph. At frame 0, it shows the current light intensity at a constant 100 percent or 50 or what ever it has been set at. Do this for all the lights in your scene. Then in the graph editor select all the light intensity channels and drag them to the channel bin. Then make a favourite set out of them, (ie. select them all and pull down the channels tab and select "create favourite set"). Now by selecting all the points at the 0 keyframe you can drag up and down and the effect is like a universal dimmer for all you lights . Also works with intensity falloff. Plus you can really easily tweak the individual lights independently.
Just something that came to me. Thought I'd share.

[evenflcw]

Neat trick! But there acctually is a universal light controler in the Global Illuminations panel, right at the top, called Global Light Intensity. However this control and your trick will alter light intensity differently. Yours will alter intensity by a constant, while the Global Light Intensity will alter them by an equal relative amount.

[Mylenium]

Well,

You could always link your lights or all other items to a dummy object using expressions. This would be the simplest way (if you plan it from the beginning) and is perfectly animatable without having to adjust amillion curves in graph editor. The only drawback is, that expressions slow down interactivity.

Mylenium