selecting direct light but not its target in a maxscript

[avolution]

I want to control a direct light for an extremely (I thought) script.

Basically I say (inside a pflow script)

foo=$myvolite* as array
foo.falloff=170

problem is; the script will error out as it selects two nodes

a)myvolite
b)myvolite.target


Is there a way; bar disabling the target function on the light; which acts
as umm, the target, and a parent pivot point for the light to have this
script select ONLY the light AND NOT the target.

Sunbmitted humbly

[Anonymous]

Seems like you have two options...

1) don't select it as array... foo = $myvolite should return the light as a single object.

2) specify the light element of the array foo.falloff = 170

Make sense?

[avolution]

I was hoping, as there will be lots of lights in the array (I tested for one) that maxscript
would allow me to isolate the two.

My workaround for this is to have all the lights untargetted, and instead each is linked to
a control dummy, and then control is passed to pflow

Seems like you have two options...

1) don't select it as array... foo = $myvolite should return the light as a single object.

2) specify the light element of the array foo.falloff = 170

Make sense?

[Anonymous]

I was hoping, as there will be lots of lights in the array (I tested for one) that maxscript
would allow me to isolate the two.

My workaround for this is to have all the lights untargetted, and instead each is linked to
a control dummy, and then control is passed to pflow

You can always filter your array to skip any Target objects (or other undesired objects):

foo=for o in $myvolite* where classof o != TargetObject collect o
foo.falloff=170