Use No Light In A Hotkeys

[tharmine]

Hi fellow modellers,
i try to create a Hotkey using the "use no light" command menu from the lighting menu. I am baking my light into the vertex, and i want to quickly toggle on and off the light in the window. Some fellow artist did it for me once, but i lost my preferences and lost his trace too. I can't find this command in the hotkey editor, or at least i don't know where to look properly. I anyone is more clever than me and could give me a hand, it would be much appreciated.
cheers

[naughty]

changing the lighting (or indeed any property) of a view panel is done via the modelEditor MEL command. most of the hotkeys you can see in the hotkey editor are in fact complex pieces of MEL code, so even something simple like "Use Default lights" is 10 or more lines of MEL code which checks the type of pane, and all sorts of other things before finally changing a minor flag of the modelEditor command....

anyway.. enough waffle. To do what you want you need to create a new hotkey with this MEL as the command:

CODE
modelEditor -e -dl "none" getPanel -wf;

:nathaN

[tharmine]

thanks naughty, it seem to work.
I did actually assign this script to a hotkey
modelEditor -e -dl none modelPanel4
and i think it is working too.

cheers

[naughty]

QUOTE(tharmine @ 09/28/06, 07:12 AM) [snapback]248742[/snapback]
modelEditor -e -dl none modelPanel4

that will only work in modelPanel4 (where the persp camera is by default).. try it in one of your other viewports!

:nathaN

[tharmine]

yep, that's right. I did not notice it because my other panels are usually wireframe. That's great help Naughty, thanks again