Why is there still no light linking in Blender Cycles?

[Ace_Dragon]

@VincentG

I’m working with Arnold at work, not for the quality but for the small stuff that makes the render easy to work with. The only difference with Cycles is indeed not the quality, probably not either the speed but features like light linking, light filter and custom AOV. “Small stuff” yes, but I’m not sure that’s easy to do and BI needs people to work on it. Implement those features in the light path is a good idea.

I know the AOV stuff would be a bit involved as a project (as it’s been mentioned that it would require a complete rewrite of the way Blender handles render-passes, which isn’t the fault of Cycles by the way). The stuff relating to the lights may be a bit easier though.