Michaelab opened this issue on Jan 05, 2012 ยท 123 posts
bagginsbill posted Sun, 08 January 2012 at 8:20 AM
Michael, Robyn is right, you'd have to use Atmosphere. If you're already complaining about render times, prepare to be even more unhappy.
Just getting the light in a cone or cylinder is no problem. But seeing it light up dust particles is.
An alternative is to use a semi-transparent cylinder or cone that is self-lit.
In either case, both tactics have been covered in many threads. If you can't find them via searching, come back and I'll try the search for you.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)