pymel.core.rendering.spotLight¶

spotLight(*args, **kwargs)¶

The spotLight command is used to edit the parameters of existing spotLights, or to create new ones. The default behaviour is to create a new spotlight.

Maya Bug Fix:

• name flag was ignored

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
barnDoors / bd		bool
bottomBarnDoorAngle / bbd		float
coneAngle / ca		float
	angle of the spotLight
decayRate / d		int
	decay rate of the light (0-no decay, 1-slow, 2-realistic, 3-fast)
discRadius / drs		float
	radius of the disc around the light
dropOff / do		float
	dropOff of the spotLight
exclusive / exc		bool
intensity / i		float
	intensity of the light (expressed as a percentage)
leftBarnDoorAngle / lbd		float
name / n		unicode
	specify the name of the light
penumbra / p		float
	specify penumbra region
position / pos		float, float, float
rgb / rgb		float, float, float
	color of the light (0-1)
rightBarnDoorAngle / rbd		float
rotation / rot		float, float, float
shadowColor / sc		float, float, float
	the shadow color
shadowDither / sd		float
	dither the shadow
shadowSamples / sh		int
	number of shadow samples.
softShadow / ss		bool
	soft shadow
topBarnDoorAngle / tbd		float
useRayTraceShadows / rs		bool
	ray trace shadows Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.spotLight

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# Create a spot light
light = pm.spotLight(coneAngle=45)

# Change the cone angle value
pm.spotLight( light, e=True, coneAngle=33 )

# Query it
pm.spotLight( light, q=True, coneAngle=True )
# Result: 33.0 #
# Result:33#