action editor - Lamps

Support Animation and Rigging
#1

I’m needing to make an action that will include several lamps. This is what I am trying to do: at the beginning of the action, every lamp will be at full attenuation. At the end, every lamp will be at 0 attenuation.

But when I select a lamp they don’t show up in the action editor as an item. What do I do? Can you not do actions with lamps like you can bones of an armature?

In the end I hope to apply an action constraint to each lamp, so that I can have a single bone in my scene that can turn on and off all the lights easily with one ipo curve for the bone to worry about.

#2

Think I realize what to do. you don’t use action constraints for the lights, but just add an object driver to the IPO curve. Funny, because I’ve done this before…

#3

Actually this doesn’t seem to be working either. :frowning: Am I on the right track?

I set it up like I normally would a driven shape key. But when I move the bone that drives it nothing happens… can you use driven ipos like this?