Warp wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>   The only defect of area_light is that it only affects shadow testing and
> nothing more. This means that diffuse and specular lighting will still be
> the one of a point light. (I'm not saying this is a good thing; it's just
> the way it's currently implemented.)
>   It might be possible to take into account the area_light settings when
> calculating diffuse and specular lighting. Perhaps someone will try a
> patch in the near future?

In any case an area light only affecting shadows like now should still be
possible since this is exactly what's often wanted and everything further
would just unnecessarily slow down things in those situations.

Christoph

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