[Bf-funboard] Re: Fake Area-Lights

[Konrad Haenel]

As I pointed out, the interface would have to make all(!) properties of 
the associated spotlight(s) available, implicitly including the 
shadow-buffer-ranges (I know how important this is, having tweaked 
several lighdomes myself).

>Hi,
>cbarton at metavr.com (2005-08-16 at 1303.55 +1000):
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>>Just copying the light isnt that usefull, you have the problem that 
>>there now many objects, not as easy to move at once etc.
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>Dupliverts does not let you move the objects, you move the parent
>mesh. And tweak one lamp.
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>>Also a fake area light needs to have the energy of each light devided by 
>>the number of lights. So its a bit annoying to manually adjust.
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>In this you have a point.
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>>Of course its the same thing, but users who want area lights will add 
>>them and get slow renders, why not allow them to click on a button that 
>>does all the the copying etc in the render initializer?
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>It is finding a interface that matches the lamp (you really want to
>see shadow buffer ranges, otherwise it is a PITA, and probably why
>raytraced ones were added quickly, no range problems) and then add the
>code.
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>GSR
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