Area Lights Not Working?

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Hello, I am trying to use area lights and I’m not seeming to get any result. Here is how I set it up:

  1. Add a Plane
  2. Set rendering to game engine
  3. Turn on GLSL
  4. Give the plane a material
  5. Add a area light.

Result:

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Here’s the .blend in case you want to check out what I’ve done: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/24599

I’m running on 2.69 and OSX. I’ve had this problem on 2.68 though so it’s not version related.

PS. Adjusting the settings of the light gives no results.

2

There’s a patch out there that gives the BGE arealight support, but it has never been committed to trunk, so there’s no bug because there’s no implementation.

Personally, I would like to see the patch I mentioned in trunk because it’s sitting around for a few releases already and the developer didn’t have the time to finish it.