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title: "Cylinder Light"
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This page offers information about the Cylinder Light in Chaos Vantage.


## **Overview**

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The Cylinder Light emits light from the surface of a cylinder, defined by its length and radius. It is ideal for simulating fluorescent tubes, LED strips, and other tubular light sources. Cylinder Light provides realistic soft lighting with intuitive physical controls. It can be either created using the **Create new Light object tool > Cylinder** or imported with a* .vrscene* file.

> ✅ You can use the right mouse button click to reset the parameters numeric values to defaults.

> ℹ️ Lights that have **[G] **in front of their name are grouped and share properties. Changing any value will be instanced in all the grouped lights. You can ungroup lights by clicking the checkbox in front of "*Grouped with ## other lights*".
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> ℹ️ ![Vantage_LightsLists_Group.png](media://db9691ba-53cd-4163-8109-ec0501f3183d)

> ℹ️ Listed parameters can be filtered by using the **Compact**, **Basic**, and **Advanced **buttons.
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> ℹ️ ![Vantage_LightsPropertiesFilter.png](media://e5ada29b-6675-42e5-8ead-eb7b5f2e1b34)


## **Parameters**

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