> Any light will light a surface most brightly when its 
> direction is perpendicular to the surface, parallel to the surface 
> normal. Your description makes it sound like the light is very nearly 
> parallel to the surface, so shading will make it dimmer.

Okay; thanks.  I played around with it, and found a way to get the 
effect I wanted, by faking it... putting an aparent light source (a 
sphere with a high ambient, low diffuse finish), and then putting the 
actual spotlight further out from wht I'm trying to illuminate.

It looks about right, and I feel less 'wrong' about doing it that way, 
because I know that all of the spotlights on the Movie Enterprises were 
faked with off-model pin sources.

So, yeah... thanks again, Christopher.

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