Clone lights?

[Adam hagsjö]

I have a scene with 10+ rooms with the same lighting design in every room and i want to
copy/clone all lights at the same time frome one room to the next one!

Can i copy a set of lights in some way or do i have to copy them one by one?

[wizlon]

I think you use clone hierachy, in your additional plug-in's menu.

Parent the lights to something first of course.

lee.

[Aegis]

A much better approach to this kind of work is to set up the lights in Modeler using Luxigons - If you have a reference light in your scene (in Layout) you can get all your Luxigon lights to take on its properties. You might want to try hooking them all together with expressions too - that way you can control all of them or groups of them with a single slider.

Alternatively (if expressions isn't your thing) large groups of lights can be effectively managed using the spreadsheet.

I did an architectural job recently that the client wanted to tweak the lighting on so I supplied a scene with all the lights and lens flare intensities tied to a group of sliders (one for each room) - all he had to do was adjust one slider to dim the lights and bring the flares down a notch - very cool :)

[toby]

another option is to use "load items from scene": Save a scene with the lighting set-up only, then load it into your main scene as many times as you need it