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manipulating the spot light
I am having some problems figuring out the spot light.
I have a comp with 3D layers.
I have dropped a spot light into it, now I want to manipulate it.1. How can I make the cone of the light ‘longer’ ? not wider I can figure out how to change the angle of the cone.
2. Is there a easy way to translate and rotate the light around, other than by opening up 4 views. ? Can you look through the light like you can a camera ?
3. How can I increase the size of the manipulation handles/axis. ?
4. Can spot light drop off with intensity. How do I set the range for the drop off ?
Thanks in advance..
Justin.
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Hi, I’ll try to anwer all 4 of them
1. the length is always infinite, there’s no drop-off, you direct it with the point of interest.
(if you want the light to lighten a specific object, you could link it’s point of interest to the position of the object)
2. you cannot look through the light, the easiest way to handle the light is to open two views
and customize the new view to have the light well visible and easy to manipulate.
3. in this new view you can zoom in until you have the size of the handles you need.
4. like 1. there’s no drop off; not with the standard lights, maybe there’s a plug-in I’m not aware of?
CC has some lighting plugins that are worth investigating… -
Though After Effects lights don’t have fall-off natively, there are some workarounds. Here’s a search of After Effects for ‘light falloff’ that leads to one such workaround.
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