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Distance line for spotlight is always 40m, despite the value of custom distance
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System Information
Operating system: Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 660 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 441.20

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.82 (sub 6), branch: master, commit date: 2020-01-22 17:31, hash: rBca7bd3f1c341

Short description of error
As title said. Also, AFAIK, there is no way to get rid of theese lines

40 meters of mess.blend643 KBDownload

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Add spotlight, turn on custom distance and change it.

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rB6dcbc3cd5aa4 Fix T73335 Overlay: Light Distance line does not represent custom distance

Event Timeline

Vyacheslav (hitrpr) created this task.Jan 23 2020, 6:56 AM
Richard Antalik (ISS) changed the task status from Needs Triage to Confirmed.Jan 23 2020, 11:34 AM
Richard Antalik (ISS) added a project: EEVEE & Viewport.
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) added subscribers: Clément Foucault (fclem), Jeroen Bakker (jbakker), Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk).Jan 23 2020, 12:10 PM

This is not relating to the Custom Distance, it was using the [old] shadow clip end [now removed].
Clip Start is still considered as the starting point of the line, but yeah, the end is arbitrary.

@Clément Foucault (fclem), @Jeroen Bakker (jbakker): not sure, Known Issue? the line can still help for orientation sometimes... wouldnt mind it being removed though... for clarity, the dot at the end should go, it has no meaning now...

Clément Foucault (fclem) claimed this task.Jan 23 2020, 2:06 PM
Clément Foucault (fclem) changed the subtype of this task from "Report" to "Bug".

I know a middle ground: I'll put the endpoint at 1.5 times the cone size.

Clément Foucault (fclem) added a comment.Jan 23 2020, 2:20 PM

Or maybe i'll make it use the custom distance... Seems like a weird way to change it but at least there is a way to make it less "in your face".

Clément Foucault (fclem) closed this task as Resolved by committing rB6dcbc3cd5aa4: Fix T73335 Overlay: Light Distance line does not represent custom distance.Jan 23 2020, 3:43 PM
Clément Foucault (fclem) added a commit: rB6dcbc3cd5aa4: Fix T73335 Overlay: Light Distance line does not represent custom distance.
Vyacheslav (hitrpr) awarded a token.Jan 23 2020, 5:35 PM
Vyacheslav (hitrpr) added a comment.Jan 23 2020, 5:42 PM

IMHO

  1. yes, it can help to aim spotlight
  2. Yes, a bit weird to change it with custom distance, when it is disabled, but in other hand, there is no point to add new value only for «length of those stick»