spotlight

[Mike Clasby]

Have you tried a new Solid (Ctrl Y), make it 3D (Check the boxunder the little cube), X rotation 90 degrees, drop the Y position a little, then Layer>New>Light, choose Spot, then pull it’s Point Of Interest around untill it make a lit circle on the Floor? Is that what you want.

There is also Perspective>CC Spotlight, but that’s for 2D layers, but it’s cool.

If you want to see the Soptlight as a beam (tindel effect) you’ll need trapcode’s Lux.

Or, this script:

https://www.petertorpey.com/tutorials/volume_light/

Click on the link at the bottom of the page, the second to last sentence is the “Download the script” link. Put the .jsx file into the AE Scripts Folder. You add a light of choice (I