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more lighting troubles
hello there. does anyone know if theres a way to change the distance the light from a light source travels?
ive got a spot light source shing on my 3d layer, but the angle its at is lighting something up that wouldnt be lit up (if it was actually a mile or so away as im trying to make it look, rather than the thousands of pixels it actually is)
i dont want to change my angle, so im wondering if theres a way to just make the light not go so far? like in reality where the further you are from a light source the weaker it is?
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i don’t think you can set fall off like that for a spot light within the light settings (at least not in cs3), but here is a link to how to do it with an expression on the 3d layer that you want affected by the fall off…
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/falloff.html
Kevin Camp
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Kevin’s suggestions are always more elegant than anything I can come up with but I was going to merely suggest you mask off the light with a gobo, an intervening and perhaps moving element that blocks light but does not cast a shadow.bogiesan
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