make unique

[Jackie Teh]

Hi, i have around 200 instance vraylight in my scene, when i make a keyframe on one light, the 200 light will have the same setting keyframe, can i make the keyframe unique but still keep all the light instance?

 

thank you.

[Stephen Thomas]

If the keyframe is to do with position or something, then yes (and it should do this by default). If you are keyframing light setttings such as multiplier, colour temperature etc. then no. If they have different settings then they are no longer an instance of each other.

[Jackie Teh]

Hi Stephen Thomas, i am keyframe the one light multiplier, but the less will be have same keyframe...

 

what i trying to achieve is i have 10 floor in my scene which i have place 200 lights(20 light in each floor, all instance light now) when i do still image, but now client want me to animate the light turn on floor by floor, i cannot achieve that if all the light in the scene have same keyframe, the will turn on at the same time, not floor by floor..

 

hoping someone could guide me, thank you very much.

[James Vella]

When animating lights I find the light select element is great. This way you can keep them instanced and turn them up/down in post production floor by floor. Separate each floor into 1 light element and animate in post. This also gives you the option if you want later to have them animate in 'waves', or have say left to right per floor, or have a few lights lag behind. Timing this in post will give you much more flexibity than trying to do this in 3D aswell.

 

Another benefit is you can render 1 frame, and you are just animating the light intensity as an element, instead of rendering hundreds of frames

[Jackie Teh]

James Vella, sound like a good idea, will give it a try, thank you very much for sharing.