Trevor G Quayle nous illumina en ce 2009-02-21 09:02 -->
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> Trevor G Quayle <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>> Try using an area light but with an open cylinder around it to limit the light
>>> to a spot.  You can effect the amount of soft shadowing by the size of the
>>> light/cylinder, etc.  A while back I posted a method for making a square
>>> spotlight using area lights.  It would probably provide a good starting point.
>>> I'll dig around and see if I can find it.
>>   Out of curiosity: Didn't you even think of trying to define a light_source
>> as being a spotlight and an area light *at the same time*?
>>
>>   Because, as others noted, povray perfectly supports that.
>>
>> --
>>                                                           - Warp
> 
> No I didn't.  I guess I must've assumed that the user had maybe tried and it
> didn't work.
> 
> This trick does work for recatngular spotlights though...
> 
> -tgq
> 
> 
You can make it circular.

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Alain
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