Archive for May, 2008

MEL: Setting the color for multiple lights

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Here’s a snippet if you want to set the RGB color for multiple lights at once.

colorEditor;

if (`colorEditor -query -result`) {

    string $lights[] = `ls -sl -dag -type light`;

    float $values[];

    $values = `colorEditor -query -rgb`;

 

    for ( $l in $lights ) {

        setAttr ($l + ".color") -type double3 [...]

Save Our Soho

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Apparently Westminster Council is proposing to impose a ban on all outdoor drinking in Soho, in the heart of London’s West End. Considering how cramped conditions already are in the pubs it would be near impossible to enjoy oneself on a night out.
From a health point of view it is obviously good because fewer people [...]

MEL: Look through Light or Camera

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

As a Lighting TD I find myself often having to look through different lights to position them correctly in the scene. Here’s a MEL procedure for opening the light (or camera) in a seperate window.
Usage: lookThrough( `ls -sl` );

proc lookThrough( string $selection[] ) {

    string $shapeType[] = `listRelatives -shapes $selection[0]`;

    string $type = [...]

Welcome

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Welcome to my brand new blog from WordPress! On these pages I will blog a little bit of anything that comes into my mind. Stay tuned…