@bghgary , we’re pretty excited about the new Area Lights in Babylon 8 and plan to do some experiments in the browser. But you know whats coming: Does that work in Native? Also if you have a list of planned Native stuff or things you know that does not have support, updating that list would be helpful!
-Anupam
Well I see no reason why it would not work on Native (but I’m not the expert there :))
I just did some testing and it seems we have some shader compilation errors on Babylon Native when using Area Lights. However, I think this should be easy to fix. I will spend some time to see if can get it to work there.
@srzerbetto thanks for the quick investigation. That would be really amazing. If you need me to help test or try stuff happy to jump in. What we are using our Back end renderer for is essentially very high quality still image output. The quality we are getting is really good and with the area lights and soft shadows, I think we’re going to get close to the V-Ray images that many of our clients use currently.