Dupliverts and spot lights

Support Basics & Interface
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I have a circle that I want to use dupliverts on to duplicate a spot light at each vertex. However, I want all the spot lights to point outward and a little downward from the circle.

I turn on dupliverts and rot on the circle and I get my spot lights but some are pointed down and some are pointed up. I must be missing something.

See my example file:

http://movies.breittechnologies.com/lights.blend

Any ideas?

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In the upper-left corner of the animation buttons (F7) are Track buttons. Us those to set your lamps axis to that of the normals. You may be able to adjust the ‘slightly down’ by setting the axis (rotation) of the dupliverted object (the original light) before you parent it to the sphere.

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