Opengl circular lighting

[Hippogriff]

I have looked around and found lots of examples involving cone-sized flashlights and shadow handling, but I haven't seen much that simply explains how to create a circular light around the character as they are moving. (Probably easier than I think).

Here is a picture of what I mean http://puu.sh/O1Vl (which is actually the game I am trying to create right now)

I know the basics of opengl lighting but not enough to create something like this, so any help is greatly appreciated.

[ne555]

Use the stencil buffer
Just draw what would be visible

[Hippogriff]

Ok thanks for the advice, will try it out.
(Pretty new to opengl so will have to do some research about it)

Edit: That worked really well, thanks again :D