"Anthony D. Baye" <ban### [at] Rapidnetcom> wrote in message
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> Try adding a tightness value.  The default is 50...

Not sure why you thought so but the new default is actually 0 now in version
3.5 and prior to that it was 10. The following are defaults:

spotlight radius 30 falloff 45 tightness 0
cylinder radius 0.75 falloff 1 tightness 0

I have a feeling this is not very well known yet.

> higher is tighter, lower is softer.

No, again.  ;-)  The tightness is softer at higher values and sharper at
lower values. What the higher tightness does is to narrow the cone of light
toward the center, thus fading it from center (not radius) to falloff.
Lower tightness makes the cone of light adhere closer to the radius (from
center), and so falloff must then be closer to radius if it is to actually
be *tightened* into a sharp boundary.

Bob Hughes

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