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Hello there. I am trying to make a light beam out of a cone with a 65% transparency. I made the cone and spotlight and aligned them and the scene looks great. However I would like to make the cone follow the spotlights target in order to animate the spotlight searching around. The spotlight source and the cone tip are to remain stationary. The problem is how do I assign the cone to follow the spotlight target and still maintain its allignment with the spotlight? I hope Im being clear about this. I tried linking the spotlite target and the cone to a dummy object and moving the dummy, but the cone tip moves as well. How do I make the cone tip stay put? Thanks for the help in advance. Douglas Drossman