Create a Target Spot from View Script

For some reason I thought I had seen something like this already, well couldn’t find anything soo… I found Neil Blevins old create camera from view script from his BlurScripts pack, changed it a bit and viola…done, simple maxscript is soo handy

Save as LightFromView.mcr and save in your local usermacros folder, create a shortcut, button, ect.

 macroScript CreateLightFromView
 	category:"Lights and Cameras"
 	toolTip:"Create Target Spot from Pers. View"
 	ButtonText:"Light From View"
 	Icon:#("Lights",1)
 (
 	focdistance = gw.GetFocalDist()
 	cp = mapscreentoworldray (getviewsize()/2)
 	ct = targetobject position:(cp.pos+(cp.dir*focdistance))
 	NewTargetSpotLight = targetspot pos:cp.pos target:ct
 	NewTargetSpotLight.target.name = NewTargetSpotLight.name + ".Target"
 	--viewport.setcamera NewTargetSpotLight --enable this if you want to use the camera controls to move the new light in the viewport
 )

Tags: Scripts

2 Comments to Create a Target Spot from View Script

1. 

   Thanks! Very useful!
Nahuel on December 2nd, 2009
2. 

   No worries, I am glad I am not the only one who thinks creating a light is a pain in the butt.

   Ruben Mayor (aka HolyCause) found a couple more

   
macroScript spotFromView
category:"Lights"
toolTip:"Create a spot light from the active view"
(
s = FreeSpot()
s.transform = Inverse(getViewTM())
)
macroScript directionnalFromView
category:"Lights"
toolTip:"Create a directionnal light from the active view"
(
s = directionalLight()
s.transform = Inverse(getViewTM())
)
admin on December 2nd, 2009

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