lights not aiming properly what have I done wrong?

[ellenortolani]

Hi everyone,

I'm a new spotlight user and am doing the best I can to self teach.

I hung lights on the truss, and then I set focus points on the floor (they all have a zero "z" coordinate) and then I set the focus points on each light.

When we turn the lights on they do not appear to be pointing at the focus points at all.

Any thoughts on what to try to figure out what I did wrong?

Also, when I look a the set from the side view, the Z coordinate is at 0, but when I look at it from another view, the Z coordinate is not at 0. Is this normal or is something wrong here that could be contributing to the lights not pointing correctly?

Thanks for any thoughts!

[Mark Mullany]

Hello heres what we do with our lights,

Create a truss.

Select the truss and then click Spotlight > Object Conversion > Convert to Light Position

Name it

Then set the Z for the truss.

From the Resources place lights on the truss

Place Focus points telling them the focus height.

Tell the lights which points to focus on.

In 2D they will not move or adjust at all this is as intended (you can rotate them if you wish)

In 3D the lights will have automatically adjusted to point at the Focus point and when turned on and rendered in Fast Renderworks or higher you can see the lights shining on the focus

try this and let me know where your having problems

All the best