box lights or spot lights?

[madifier]

Create a gobo instead Saves performance. Simply imagine how you would like the shadow to look. Paint a black and white image of it. White = light, black = no light. Save as a .dds image --> Load on your spotlight.

I may use that when I'm indoors, dungeons and the lot, but with close to 130 outside areas, I might have to bite the bullet on performance. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Yes, you saw correctly, 130 areas and coupled with indoors that'll probably jump to 150+ at least. Probably be a year before I'm done. If your curious about the project, I'll give more details at a later date.