How to change light type from Point to Infinite

[jps]

I have many lights I need to change from Point to Infinite in each of my scene and keep all other parameters the same (color, intensity, position, rotation, parent...).
Is it possible to get this done in Python simply?
Thanks.

[siml_1]

Hi Newt,

You can do it in Python. Simply query the scene for all the lights, change the attribute LightType to kFBLightTypeInfinite.
See script below.
Hope that helps. 🙂

from pyfbsdk import *

lLightList = FBSystem().Scene.Lights

for i in range(0, lLightList.__len__()):
print lLightList.__getitem__(i).Name
lLightList.__getitem__(i).LightType = FBLightType.kFBLightTypeInfinite

[jps]

Thanks a lot.
This is working great.

I'm new to python and not used to this way of writing:
lLightList.__len__()

but more:
len(lLightList)

What is the main difference? Is it the use of "Class"?

[siml_1]

Hi Newt,

They are probably the same. See the 2013 online docs below.

FBPropertyList class
http://docs.autodesk.com/MB/MB2013/ENU/MotionBuilder-SDK-Documentation/py_ref/classpyfbsdk_1_1_f_b_p...