Greg Edwards <edw### [at] hotmailcomremovethis> wrote:
> If there's no other way to address this, I'll 
> consider adding a new keyword to my patch.

  There's currently no way of getting highlights of an area light (instead
of a point light) in such way that the rendering times will not increase
dramatically.
  You can get good arealight-highlights by using a grid of point lights,
but this would completely remove the advantage of adaptive supersampling
in the area_light, thus resulting in dramatical increase of render time.

  It probably wouldn't be too difficult to add support for
arealight-highlights to the current mechanism without slowing down the
rendering unacceptably. However, there might be some non-trivial issues
in this.

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