Cloning or duplicating???

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I've searched for "clone" as well as "duplicate" and found nothing useful

 

So I'm asking ;

Is there a way to clone an object, or light in Daz Studio?

I'm attempting to light a 3D set. Part of the set has a second story hallway. I'm trying to light evenly spaced cieling lights. Since the set is large, once I set a light, I wish I could clone the light and move it the short distance from the first light. The way I'm doing it now is creating the light but it comes in at global zero.Then moving it where I want it to be, over and over again. Is there a way to do this more intuitivly or a workaround to accomplish the same thing?

Thanks in advance

frogimus

Not sure if it works for lights, but for objects you can make multiple instances by selecting the item, go to Create menu, then select "Node Instances" (or something similar, since I'm not at my PC I don't know the exact term).

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Thanks frogimus!

 

I tried it out on the light. 

Sadly it just made multiples of the nodes but not the light itself. Dang!

barbult

Use Edit->Duplicate  for lights.

vex3d_22560

From my experience, there is a difference between instances and duplication. An instance will update its parameters when you modify the clone's parent/original, while duplicate makes a separate object that you can modify without affecting the parent.

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Thanks BARBULT and vex3d.

Edit>duplicate did duplicate the lights fine.  I think I'll use duplicate more often then instance.

 

Thanks again