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It's been over a year since I used Multilight (or even Maxwell) and I can't remember exactly how to animate.

Basically I've got 60 lights (1 for each second) and I want to animate each light turning on. So 1 light after 1 second, 2 lights after 2 seconds etc until 60 lights are on. Is there an easy way to do this... a script? Other than adjust the lights myself and save? It will end up being about 1000 ajustments not just 60.

And my other question is.... we used to be able to apply 1 emitter to multiple objects then in multilight there would be the option to change the settings of each emitter, but now it seems that only 1 emitter is shown. So do you now have to create an emitter for each object in Studio first? So I'd have to clone for 60 emitters?

w i l l wrote:It's been over a year since I used Multilight (or even Maxwell) and I can't remember exactly how to animate.

you are definitely sketching too much.


..for the animation, i'd probably do something like that in after effects.
u know there is a mx plugin for AE.. so get the mxi in there and set up your emitters in the timeline, copy & translate the keyframes as needed. shouldn't take too long.


and yes .. atm. there is only this choice> you'll need 60 emitters


daniel

multi light sliders used to represent objects , now they represent materials.
If you apply the same emitter material to all the 60 separate lights , you will get only one slider.
You need to rename the emitter material for each of the 60 lights.........

pipcleo wrote:multi light sliders used to represent objects , now they represent materials.
If you apply the same emitter material to all the 60 separate lights , you will get only one slider.
You need to rename the emitter material for each of the 60 lights.........

Yeah I know...... that's a crazy change! Also you can't just type a massive number for an emmiter in multilight, you have to switch back to Studio and change it.

polynurb wrote:

w i l l wrote:It's been over a year since I used Multilight (or even Maxwell) and I can't remember exactly how to animate.

you are definitely sketching too much.


..for the animation, i'd probably do something like that in after effects.
u know there is a mx plugin for AE.. so get the mxi in there and set up your emitters in the timeline, copy & translate the keyframes as needed. shouldn't take too long.


and yes .. atm. there is only this choice> you'll need 60 emitters


daniel

OK I'l have a go......

Cheers

w i l l wrote:you can't just type a massive number for an emmiter in multilight, you have to switch back to Studio and change it.

You can now. Make adjustments in Maxwell, then from the ML Options menu, File>Apply changes to scene.

Or maybe he needs to right-click a slider, Change Slider Range.

Ohh yeeeeeeeeeeah!

Mihai wrote:

w i l l wrote:you can't just type a massive number for an emmiter in multilight, you have to switch back to Studio and change it.

You can now. Make adjustments in Maxwell, then from the ML Options menu, File>Apply changes to scene.

missed that in the release notes....damn handy

Also is there a way of turning off the warning to embed the mxm in scene? I can't find anything in preferences.

That isn't a warning I think but an option, so you can't turn off that dialog.