I sometimes have difficulty visualizing exactly what a spotlight will do.

Does anybody have (or feel like writing) a macro which would generate a
couple of cones using the parameters which copied the planned spotlight's
location, look_at, radius, and falloff settings?

I used an extremely crude one I wrote which required me to do start at
location 0,0,0 with look_at 0,0,1 then rotate and translate, but it would be
very cool if somebody did something a lot more generic.

It would be really cool if the POV spotlight did this for you... imagine a
keyword "test" that drew lines deliniating the edges of each cone, or even
test followed by a float, which could specify the distance at which to draw
circles, essentially the cone base (I'm thinking of the very intuitive
display in 3DSMAX for manipulating spotlights).

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