Mirror a Lighting Setup

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Hey all!

I'm currently doing a set of product shots and I'm wondering if there's an easy way to mirror a lighting setup...

The product is sat at the worlds centre and some shots are of it rotated so I'm wanting to use the same lights for front right hand side for front left hand side for instance.

I've tried editing the contents of the lights and using a mirror node, but due to them being moved in geo space, I can't set the pivot to centre.

Hope someone can help! Cheers
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copy your lights parent under a Null that is at the position of your mirror center and set Scale x (or axis to mirror along) to -1

or

select lights and use Modify/Mirror shelf tool
Edited by tamte - March 29, 2022 17:47:34
Tomas Slancik
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As easy as that! Thanks Tomas, huge help.
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