Iray Light Manager Pro - Save Lighting Profiles?

Heya

I'm enjoying V3Digitimes Iray Light Manager Pro - very handy - but wondered if it might be useful to be able to save lighting profiles for all the lights in a scene?

It might be possible to do this already, but I can't see an obvious option; it seems the only way is to keep a separate note of them before I change them, then re-dial them in as needed. It would be great to just re-tweak all lights in one go.

Thanks

Al/PB

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  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150

    Hi PangurBan. Thanks for the feedback.

    I'm sorry I don't understand exactly what you want to do. What do you mean by "light profile"? For me a light profile is an intensity diagram of the light, this is maybe why I'm confused.

    Maybe if you give a more precise example of what you would like to do, then I could answer better to you.

  • PangurBanPangurBan Posts: 28

    Hi

    Sorry for being unclear - what I meant was, say I had several DS lights, e.g. all 5000 Flux(lm) at 255.255.255; plus some surface lights, say arealight planes at 5000 Luminance at 255.0.0 - what I meant by a lighting profile would be to save that setup as "SceneLights1".

    Then if I made changes to the colours, brightness etc, but decided I didn't like them, I could just reload that saved profile. It's just the values that I had previously, but saved so I could reload them easily. It also means I could build standard lighting setups like "Stage-LightsDimmed", "Stage-SpotlightDrummer" etc.

    Hope that makes sense. If it's difficult, no problem, it would just be handy.

    Great product by the way, many thanks for creating it :)

    Cheers

    PB

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    PangurBan said:

    Hi

    Sorry for being unclear - what I meant was, say I had several DS lights, e.g. all 5000 Flux(lm) at 255.255.255; plus some surface lights, say arealight planes at 5000 Luminance at 255.0.0 - what I meant by a lighting profile would be to save that setup as "SceneLights1".

    Then if I made changes to the colours, brightness etc, but decided I didn't like them, I could just reload that saved profile. It's just the values that I had previously, but saved so I could reload them easily. It also means I could build standard lighting setups like "Stage-LightsDimmed", "Stage-SpotlightDrummer" etc.

    Hope that makes sense. If it's difficult, no problem, it would just be handy.

    Great product by the way, many thanks for creating it :)

    Cheers

    PB

    Oh OK! So sorry for the late answer I totally forgot to suscribe to the thread!!!

    Well, no you cannot save the whole setting, because, for now, such "save only emitting surfaces+lights+render settings at the same time is a same file" does not exist. The only mean I would know would be to empty the scene of everything except the lights and then save the scene (to merge in an another scene after that), but even with this I'm not sure, especially for emissive surfaces. Otherwise if you have modified the lights and want to revert just after, you can simply use the "undo" from daz top menu, then you'll come back to your previous setting.

    Yes it makes sense, but sadly I have no solution for that :(

    You're welcome, and on my side, thanks for using it!

    Cheers!!

  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,246

    You can save your lights as a scene subset. Scene subsets load into scenes without replacing the scene (in other words they just get added to whatever scene you are working on). Just delete your lights and load the scene subset of lights that you want instead.

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150

    Indeed you can do that, but the environment light settings are not loaded with the subset, so you would have to save also the render settings part separately.

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