phosphor112
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One last point I'd like to bring up.
The only way to prove for sure that these are real area lights is to see the lights move in realtime. Most of these games are using static lights on static objects. They could be pre-baked.
Also, it would be very easy to mimic area lights with creating several point lights all in an array. Like this:
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I just made a rectangular area light with 16 point lights.
In the conventional sense, this is not a true area light...
-M
I don't think you understand what you're talking about regarding the demonstration that GG did.
Clearly they are area lights.