On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:28:45 +0200, Fabien Mosen
<fab### [at] skynetbe> wrote:

>"H. E. Day" wrote:
>> 
>> and why don't they work?  Tried this with both Mega and Offical versions.
>
>I don't know if this is what you meant, but I noticed (some time ago) 
>that, once you use shadowless, a spotlight is equal to a pointlight.  
>It seems that the "limiting cone" is in fact a shadowing effect, 
>and thus dissapear with shadowless...

Shadowless lights were initially implemented as fill lights long
before radiosity provided a better solution. As such, they don't
create highlights, don't drop shadows and I think they are not
restricted by the spotlight light cone.


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