This page offers information about the Lights tab in Chaos Vantage.
Overview
The lights tab offers a list of all lights in the scene and their properties. This includes lights imported with a .vrscene file.
You can use the right mouse button click to reset the parameters numeric values to defaults.
Lights List
In the lights list are listed all lights and their properties imported with a .vrscene file.
Lights that have [G] in front of their name are grouped and share properties. Changing any value will be instanced in all the grouped lights. You can ungroup lights by clicking on the checkbox in front of "Grouped with ## other lights"
Lights will be automatically grouped/instanced if they share similar properties. This functionality will be available if the Display controls for all lights is disabled in the UI section of the Preferences dialogue.
Compact – Displays only On/Off, color and intensity parameters for lights in the lights' list.
Basic – Displays common parameters for lights in the lights list.
Advanced – Displays all available parameters for lights in the lights list.
Ungroup selected lights – Ungroups selected lights in the scene which are part of a light group (have matching and identical properties) and makes them unique.
Enable All – Turns on all lights in the list.
Disable All – Turns off all lights in the list.
Expand All – Expands collapsed lights in the list.
Fold All – Collapses all lights in the list.
