This documentation will walk you through the basics of making a spotlight. The creation of spotlights is likely to change in the future however, spotlights can be very helpful if you are not quite getting the lighting you desire.

If you already have a firm understanding of Podium lighting, especially Omni lights, here is something to experiment with. Spotlights take more time to set up, just as omnis take more time to set up than LEMs.

Spotlights can be used to manipulate light falloff. The falloff is determined by the length of the line drawn out from the group. In the above images, you see a “scallop” effect is achieved.

Download the Spotlight_test_scene.skp for some examples of spotlights. Click Here to download.Then assign light attributes to each spotlight group and then render.

To create a spotlight:

1. Start by making a group as if you were making an omni light but, do not give the group a light value.

2. From the center of the group, draw an edge (line) extending away from the group. In this example the line was 2 meters.

3. Combine in a group the entities created in steps 1 and 2.

4. Give the group from step 3 a light value.

5. Render to see the spotlight effect.

In the two images at the top of the page, you see one image with spotlight groups and another image with renderedspotlights. Download the Spotlight_test_scene.skp for some examples of spotlights. Download here.