Building AreaLights in BabylonJS (Paid)

ivomc · January 10, 2023, 2:30pm

We are looking to create realistic lighting setups using BabylonJS (PBR), and are currently missing the implementation of AreaLights. We are looking for someone to build this feature for us (paid) with the following requirements:

Rectangular area lights similar to ThreeJS
Color input
Texture input (see WebGL deferred area lights [video texture][three.js], but we do not require video input, just static textures)
The default light controls like intensity

We found this feature request, but can’t wait for general “Future” Add support for AreaLights · Issue #7866 · BabylonJS/Babylon.js · GitHub

Deltakosh · January 10, 2023, 4:27pm

I’ll be happy to help review and merge that feature FOR SURE
And I know @sebavan will be thrilled!

sebavan · January 10, 2023, 4:27pm

YUP more than glad to help with the review !!!

ivomc · January 11, 2023, 7:46am

If there is a possibility to fund the development of this feature directly to the BabylonJS team, we are also open to that!

sebavan · January 11, 2023, 4:00pm

Unfortunately, this is not the kind of service our team is able to offer.

I wonder if this was in some plans @br-matt ???

Pryme8 · January 11, 2023, 4:34pm

If I can find some free time here I was going to look at tackling this.

It will probably just be a hijack/port of PlayCanvas area light stuff with predefined shapes. I doubt id be able to tackle mesh support.