Adding a light in Lingo

Can someone please help me with this? I want to have a light
under a car model that shines down on the ground. I know how to
create a light in Lingo, but I can't seem to get it to position
under my model. Also, can I attach the light to the model?

In that case, I would fake it.
I would use a plane textured with an alpha channel bitmap of
a round with a transparent feather effect (for the glow). I would
set the emissive color of the shader for this round to
rgb(255,255,255) to light it. Then, I would just set the visibility
of this plane object to #both / #none when I want to display /
discard it.
You can create the bitmap in Firefox by creating a Shape,
then clicking + to add the glow then select the transparent color
for the background (in the Properties at the bottom). Then save as
PNG (default).
Cheers,
Karl.
http://www.chromelib.com

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    History:Support Extreme OSB logo. Display L3 cache. Support Prescott cpu & update microcode. Modify Prescott ratio programming.
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    [MSI Staff]

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