Putting lights on a model

[elliotclem1]

Hi there,

 

Just woundering if you could put lights in the model panel.

 

As this would help me with my road and my street lights.

 

Will i have to just put loads of little lights on-top of the street lights?

 

Would a glow effect work as a light?

 

Elliot

[heyvern]

Yes you can add a light into a model:

 

Create one street light model and place a light in the model. You move the light in bones mode in the model window.

 

Now place multiple shortcuts of the street light model in your choreography.

 

Using multiple copies of one street light model in a choreography is more efficient that creating a single model with many street lights.

 

-vern

[Rodney]

Right Clicking is your friend.

Right Click and bring up the options panel for whatever area you are working in.

Then explore your world.

 

You can add lights to a model via Right Click/New/Light in the Modeling window.

 

As Vern said go into Bones mode to move the lights around to where you need them.

[heyvern]

I may be wrong and it's been ages since I added a light to a model... but I thought you could drag and drop a light into a model?

 

Even hard core AM users ask newbie questions.

 

-vern

[elliotclem1]

Thank you all for your information

[Rodney]

I may be wrong and it's been ages since I added a light to a model... but I thought you could drag and drop a light into a model?

 

Vern,

Yes indeed you can drag and drop lights onto/into a model.

They have to exist first of course.

 

If you just have a model (no lights/no choreography) you can either create a light, create a Choreography (which will automagically create 3 lights) or Right Click/New/Light.

 

Also, once you create a Model with a light you can add those via drag and drop those into Choreographies too. You can nest these lights to an extent by importing models into models as Action Objects.

 

With so many ways of doing things its hard to keep up the documentation. Thats why you should Right Click often. You never know when you might find something new. We've hit some of the most apparent ways you can add lights but there are other ways too.

Learning to program for instance...

[heyvern]

If I rub my magic lamp could I wish for a light? Seems appropriate.

 

 

Thanks Rodney! You are a wealth of information.

 

-vern