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    Light Orientation

    Blake Shermer(Shermerb)
    posted to: Three Point Lighting

    How to do you rotate the lights but have it still pointed towards an object?

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    • Omar Domenech replied

      Do you have a time stamp on the video to see what you mean? What you're saying sounds impossible, if you rotate it, then you're going to point it away from the object.

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      If you put the 3D Cursor where the Object is, and set the Pivot Point to the 3D Cursor, you can do just  that.

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      Austin M(hydrogen-2) replied
      When he uses the Tri-lighting extension, the lights are configured in such a way as to always point at the object. He's not rotating them; he's just moving them. The constraint on the light keeps it pointed at the monkey.
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    • Dwayne Savage(dillenbata3) replied

      The addon uses a tracking constraint set on the light. If I remember correctly it sets the selected object as the target in the constraints. I prefer to set it to an empty so I can change where the lights point on the object.