Area Lights

[JMS55]

What problem does this solve or what need does it fill?

Adds the remaining common type of light, alongside the existing directional/point/emissive/spotlights.

Research

• Moving Frostbite to Physically Based Rendering 3.0
• Real Shading in Unreal Engine 4
• A Journey Through Implementing Multiscattering BRDFs and Area Lights (note that there are speaker notes embed in the slides)

[jstanhope3]

Hello, is someone currently working on this? Otherwise I'd love to contribute.

[JMS55]

No one is currently working on this, feel free. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the #rendering-dev channel on discord.