I have 2 questions to post about lights.

Any Light, how do you turn on the light(s) in the preview plane of where your wire frame is. i want to see where my shadow is casting.

Spotlight Barndoors. how do i get them 2 work? i read the help file, it says to enable the barn doors. open the attribute editor click on the little thingy called Barn Doors and then look throught the spot light to adjust the barn doors. I did and i can't get the blue lines that show you that the barn doors are turned on. Is there another thing i am supposed to turn on?


BobbyZ

set shading to smooth then choose lighting -> Use all lights or Use selected lights then enable the cast shadows wich only workks with dmap shadows and then only with spotlights (hardware is far too limitted to make ratraced shadows, or hande poitlights well). Also note it does not work on all graphics cards, and the menuitem cast shadows wont appear on cards that dont support this.

Other than that use a a preview render.

But theres better ways of aiming your shadows and its to look trough your light using panles -> look trough selected.