pymel.core.rendering.directionalLight

directionalLight(*args, **kwargs)

The directionalLight command is used to edit the parameters of existing directionalLights, or to create new ones. The default behaviour is to create a new directionallight.

Maya Bug Fix:

• name flag was ignored

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types	Properties
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
exclusive (exc)		bool
intensity (i)		float
	intensity of the light (expressed as a percentage)
name (n)		unicode
	specify the name of the light
position (pos)		float, float, float
rgb (rgb)		float, float, float
	color of the light (0-1)
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 shadowFlag can appear in Create mode of commandFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.
useRayTraceShadows (rs)		bool
	ray trace shadows

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.directionalLight

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

import maya.cmds as cmds

# Create a directional light
light = pm.directionalLight(rotation=(45, 30, 15))

# Change the light intensity
pm.directionalLight( light, e=True, intensity=0.5 )

# Query it
pm.directionalLight( light, q=True, intensity=True )
# Result: 0.5 #
# Result:0.5#