#250 Spotlight mesh object

[leope]

I think it would be useful if the shape of the spotlight described the actual status of the properties.
Angle of the cone and falloff, and, more important, a slide to extend the shape in the light direction to help repositioning the light when is just created and it's used as sunlight (small cone and very distant).

An alternative is to make a "view from (selected) object": use an object like a fake camera.

Maybe a more specialized option of "view from this spotlight" would be useful too (drawing in the view the two circle of the angle and falloff).

Or to avoid this abuse of the spotlight... a sun with soft shadows.

thanks :)
leope

[Luke S]

See also [feature-requests:#102] as implementation should be similar. Note that spotlights can now be used as a view point, so just looking at the mesh options here.