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    Spot Lights

    Spot lights have the largest variety of configurable settings of any light, and unlike other light types they can show fog, project images and gobos, and have their cone angles animated. See Defining Spot lights for more about the different Spot light options.

    Spot light

    Pages in this section
    • Defining Spot lights
    • Spot light options
    Parent page: Custom lights

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