Quote - > Quote - Using a prop insteed of adding parameters to a poserlight allows any geometry you like as a lightsource. This may be new to Poser uses, but maybe you can imagine what is possible with something like that. 

Err... Poser 8 does just that with IDL turned on and an ambient setting (former versions just had the object glow without emmiting light)... So the question is: why reinvent the wheel (and add corners)?

At least we need a chance to set parameters like "importance" and "nsamples" for each defined arealight?

Maybe it's not easy to decide if a geometry with ambient != 0 is an arealight or not. 

On the other side: Why not both? An automatic decission and a possibility for "advanced users" to define things exactly? 

Same for other lightsources with lots of special parameters hardly to guess (see  http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/index.php?title=Scene_file_format#Light).

Or is it really not required? What do other think about this?

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