• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Spot Light. Point source radius

  Posted by Alex Reardon on December 1, 2016 at 7:42 pm

  Good Morning Hive.

  I’m a lighting designer working for touring acts. I use a lot of moving-head light fixtures whose beam exits the light fixture with the same radius as the lens.

  My problem is that the source of a c4d spot light is a point, not a user-definable radius. To date, I’ve been placing the spot light towards the back of the light and “fudging it” by adding a disk light to represent the lens. The beam is still narrower than the aperture. If I place the c4d spot behind the light, and exclude the light fixture in the object attribute manager, I get a volumetric cone sitting behind the light fixture.

  I was wondering if there was some way of being able to spread the start point of the spot light….

  Thoughts please?

  Thank you.

  -Alex-

  Alex Reardon replied 9 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Adam Trachtenberg

  December 1, 2016 at 11:08 pm

  I think you’re looking for the “near clip” parameter in the light’s Details tab.
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  Alex Reardon

  December 1, 2016 at 11:29 pm

  Ah HA!
  I had a feeling it would be something remarkably obvious.
  Thank you very much.

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