Max2009 “Lights Back 2 Standard”
With the release of max 2009, someone decided to change the default light setup in the create panel to “photometric”, since I generally don’t use photometric lights I wrote a Rube Goldberg script to fix the issue. Just save the script below in your startup folder and it will change your Create light panel back to the default Standard lights.
It is important that this is the last script to run in your startup directory, so name it appropriately, something like “zLightsBack2Standard.ms”. It seems other scripts may steal scope, for instance I use Martin Breidt’s “Project Switcher” and if this script loads before his it doesn’t work.
--Lights Back 2 Standard
--Changes your create lights panel back to standard lights instead of photometric
--Save to your scripts>startup folder
with redraw Off(
startObjectCreation OmniLight
startObjectCreation Plane
Max modify mode
Max create mode
)
Yesss!!……I’ve been searching for a solution to this for months……finally I can get rid of another annoyance of the 2009 release. Many thx
Cool, it is a total hack but it works, don’t ask me why they changed it? Maybe for the design edition it would make sense. Anyway I started using max2009 again after a little hiatus and noticed it had stopped working. Which seems to be related to some other startup scripts. I edited the post for a simple fix. Just rename the script so that it runs last in the startup folder. ie“zLightsBack2Standard.ms”
cheers,
John