[Bf-funboard] Spotlight w/empty

[joeedh]

alex wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Tom Kerr wrote:
>
>> Whenever I add a spotlight, I add an empty for it to be tracked to.  
>> Doesn't everybody?
>>
>> Why not have an options to add 'spotlight w/empty' , giving you a 
>> spotlight already tracked to an empty?  Maybe the same option for 
>> cameras, since I think empties are the only way to control those as 
>> well.
>>
>> Just a thought I had; might save a few seconds a day ;)
>
>
> Empties are the only way to control cameras and spotlights? What about 
> just
> manually rotating them from camera view? Works fine enough for me...

Yeah, but that's fairly cumbersomce.  I think that this is a great 
idea.   Maybe holding down ALT-E while adding an object would 
automatically assign an empty to it?

joeedh