Spotlight Procedural

 

The Spotlight node can be used to place a spotlight-shaped texture onto the surface of an object (figure 1).

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Figure 1: The Spotlight node applied to a scene object

 

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Figure 2: The Smooth Voronoi Contours node and it's associated parameters

 

Spotlight Parameters

Orientation

Primary axis for the emission cone.

 

Direction or Target

Specifies the direction or target point, this parameter is ignored if orientation is set to surface normal.

 

Cone Angle

Width of the cone angle in degrees.

 

Hardness

Controls how abruptly the emission pattern falls of at the edges.

 

Normalize Power

Keeps the emitted power constant when the cone angle changes.