Sun lamp can't be moved?

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Hello,
I haven’t yet found any documentation that shows me how to move the sun lamp. When I add a sun lamp, it illuminates my earth globe from straight over the north pole. I can move the sun lamp object itself, but the sunshine continues to pour straight down on Santa Claus…

How do I move the place the “sun” light emanates from?

Thank you,

Clinton Crowley
Fort Worth, Texas

P.S.: My blend file is a bit too large to upload, so just imagine an earth globe with a sun lamp shining down from the north pole. Santa Claus is not actually visible…

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Hi,

The position of sun lamps doesn’t make any difference to the illumination they cast. Only their orientation is important. Try rotating your sun lamp.

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Yes… probably you will think “what a stupid lamp” but they are really useful for casting an overall directional light over a whole scene. Trying to light a whole scene with spotlights would take many lights, have patchy results and would be difficult to make lighting changes (colour, brightness etc).