Peter Popov <pet### [at] vipbg> wrote:
:>When I use an arealight with light fading, the light fades like if it was a
:>point light.

: It has always been this way. This is known behaviour and is
: documented. A work around the issue is to use several point light
: sources or a pure radiosity light source.

  One has to remember that the area light definition has effect *ONLY* in
shadow calculations, nothing else.

  I wonder how difficult it would be for it to be taken into account in
other things as well (lighting, highlights, fading...).

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