pymel.core.rendering.pointLight

pointLight(*args, **kwargs)

The pointLight command is used to edit the parameters of existing pointLights, or to create new ones. The default behaviour is to create a new pointlight.

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
	This flag is obsolete.
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
	This flag is obsolete.
rgb (rgb)		float, float, float
	color of the light (0-1)
rotation (rot)		float, float, float
	This flag is obsolete.
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
useRayTraceShadows (rs)		bool
	ray trace shadowsFlag can appear in Create mode of commandFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.pointLight

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

import maya.cmds as cmds

pm.pointLight()
# Result: nt.PointLight(u'pointLightShape1') #