Moving and Rotating Lights

You can move a light anywhere in the composite just like you can move a layer or the camera. You can also rotate spotlights to point the beam at different objects.

You can position lights either by setting exact X, Y, and Z coordinate values or by dragging the light in the viewports.

To move a light:

1. Select the light. See Selecting Lights.
2. Do one of the following:
• Click the Transform button and adjust the required fields to set explicit values for the position of the light.
• Click the Arrow tool   on the Toolbar to drag the light to the required position in a viewport. Enable the X, Y, and Z tool options to constrain the movement to one or more axes.

Note: Depending on the view, you can constrain movement when you left-click and drag, and when you right-click (Windows) or Option-click (Macintosh) and drag in the viewport. See Tool Constraint Shortcuts.

The light icon moves to the new position.

Warning: Moving a spotlight does not change the rotation of the spotlight cone. To point it at different objects, you must rotate the spotlight.

To rotate a spotlight:

1. Select the light. See Selecting Lights.
2. Do one of the following:
• Click the Transform button and adjust the required fields to set explicit values for the light's rotation.
• Click the Rotate tool   on the Toolbar to drag the light to the required rotation in a viewport. Enable the X, Y, and Z tool options to constrain the rotation to one or more axes.