Script Jobs & Performances

[oodini]

Hello,

I add some extra attribute to all the lights.
I made a nice template, and I want to dim some controls according the value of some standard Maya attributes.

The good way to do that is to define a scriptJob with the attributeChange option for each parameter I want to look after.
If I have to look after 3 parameters for each light, I so have 30 scriptJobs. And Maya has to listen each attribute change.

What about all this on the Maya performances ? Is it neglictable ?

Thanks for your advice.

[joojaa]

Wellthe base idea is if you do a lot fo script jobs you've probably misunderstood maya completely.

What is it that these attributes DO! I mean can you just hook them up to a compuatation network instad?

problem is that script jobs dont run during animation so if you key theese attribs nothing will happen.

[oodini]

I am doing an exporter to a third party renderer.

Light have extra attributes specific to this renderer. For example, there are some shadows parameters.
As they make sense only when you choose to render the shadows, I want them dimmed when the user chooses to not render shadows.

Other example : I want the standard parameter "Shutter Angle" update some of my attributes.

What