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title: "Lights Tab"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ARENA/124491813/Lights%20Tab"
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This page offers information about the Lights tab in Chaos Vantage. Overview The Lights tab provides a list of all lights in the scene, along with their properties. This includes lights imported with a .vrscene file. You can use the right mouse button to reset the numeric values of the parameters to their defaults. The Lights tab is not available during Live Link connection. Scene sub-state Scene sub-state  – A dropdown list of all scene lights sub-states. Create  ( ) – Creates a new scene lights sub-state. Update  ( ) – Updates a scene lights sub-state. Delete  ( ) – Deletes a scene lights sub-state. Double-click to delete. Note that the default scene sub-state cannot be updated or deleted. Light Lister The Light lister lists all lights and their properties imported with a .vrscene file. Lights that have  [G]  in front of their name are grouped and share properties. Changing any value will be instanced in all the grouped lights. You can ungroup lights by clicking the checkbox in front of " Grouped with ## other lights " Lights are automatically grouped/instanced if they share similar properties. This functionality is available if the ‘ Display controls for all lights’ option  is  disabled  in the  UI  section of the  Preferences  dialogue. UI path: Edit menu > Preferences > UI > Display controls for all lights Button Button name Description Compact Displays only  On/Off ,  color,  and  intensity  parameters for lights in the Light lister. Basic Displays common parameters for lights in the Light lister. Advanced  Displays all available parameters for lights in the Light lister. Enable all lights Turns on all lights in the list. Disable all lights Turns off all lights in the list. Ungroup selected lights Ungroups selected lights in the scene that are part of a light group (have matching and identical properties) and makes them unique. Expand all lights Expands collapsed lights in the list. Collapse all lights Collapses all lights in the list. Search Filter Filters the lights list and shows only those lights that contain the input string. Click on the X button on the right to clear the input string. Clear Clears the filter string. Filter Filters which types of light (Point, Spot, Directional, Rectangle, Disc, Sphere, IES, Mesh) are listed in the Light lister. Right-click the button to reset the filter. Use Ctr + click to isolate a selection. Sort Opens a submenu with options for sorting the lights in the Light lister by the following criteria: Sort by name  – Sorts the objects alphabetically.  Sort by creation  – Sorts the objects by order of creation. Ascending  – Sorts objects in ascending order depending on the Sort by name and Sort by creation options. Descending  – Sorts objects alphabetically in descending order depending on the Sort by name and Sort by creation options.