Rotate Light in an Animation

Melissa Conway

I've got an AoA spotlight with the lava gobo applied in my scene. I'd like to animate it as it rotates on its axis (so the lighting looks psychedelic in the final animation), but can't seem to figure out how. Parenting to a null hasn't worked, unless there's a trick to it? Thanks.

DUDU

Hi,
If you uses Carrara, you can apply a spin modifier to the light.

Melissa Conway

Thanks for responding. My WIP is in Studio. I settled for not using that particular effect. Would still like to know how to do it for future reference. Wish more people browsed this forum...

Kevin Sanderson

Hi Melissa, you may want to check this script out. It's used to rotate/animate a torus for a convincing running water effect. It should work in 4.7.

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/setinterpolation-for-ds2-3

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/two-water-effects

Melissa Conway

Will do. Thanks Kevin!