How do I prevent Arnold from rendering hidden lights?

[mar_piotrowski]

is it possible?
I'm after VRay's behaviour with Render hidden lights option off.

[lee_griggs]

I created a ticket for this. Thanks for reporting. 

You can also right-click on the heading in the scene explorer add "configure columns",  and add "Light On" as a column. 

[giuseppe.schiralli]

Or also use the Light Lister tool.

[mar_piotrowski]

Light on/off property propagates through instances so this creates new issues.
Is there anything that Operator graph can do for me in that situation?

[mar_piotrowski]

Ok, the solution is obviously Renderable flag that works just fine on lights.
Thanks anyway.

[bioclone_ax45]

May you elaborate a bit on this? where is the "renderable" option avalaible, in the Scene Explorer?

[mar_piotrowski]

yes.

[bioclone_ax45]

thx, I have been wondering how to make this for quite a while (and since I have a render in progress right now I couldnt check it out yet.) this will save me tons of time on complex scenes.

[facebooooo]

Hi,

In my project:

If the lights is Arnold Light, the only way not to render It is turn the light Off.

To hide Arnold light, doesn't work. Arnold render It..

But that is my experience only. I'm not PRO.

[bioclone_ax45]

His solution works...

You must add a column to the Layer explorer and add "renderable" it then will show up a new icon and column near the "frozen" one... there a teapot icon will be showcased. This performs just like the hidden/unhidden objects and a single click there will avoid the light to get rendered mostly like if you would be manually turning it off.

Check this image you will find all info needed

Notice:

-Arnold Lights

-Red and Green lights set as Active

-Only Green set as renderable (and only greeen apears to be rendered)

This makes the procedure of "turning off lights" (actually no, it changes the renderable state but seems to do exactly the same) way easier with barelly a single click.