Assigning a Focus Point to a Lighting Instrument

One or more instruments can be focused on a focus point. The instrument focus point is used to draw light beam representations (see Drawing Light Beam Representations), calculate photometric values (see Obtaining Photometric Data) and for rendering gobo projections (see Gobo Projection Requirements).

The focus point can also used to create Magic Sheets that show the instruments focused on a particular area (see Magic Sheets). In addition, the focus point can be used as one of the criteria for finding instruments with the Find and Modify command (see Find and Modify).

To focus the lighting instrument(s) on a focus point:

1.	Select the instrument(s).

2.	Select Modify > Focus Instruments.

In the Focus Instruments dialog box, specify the name of the focus point, or select Next Click to create a new focus point with the next mouse click (you will be prompted for the name of the focus point object).

To change the focus point of a single instrument, enter the name of the new focus point in the Focus field of the Object Info palette (see Lighting Instrument Properties).