ETA for IES profiles on forward rendering?

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Hello,

I’m working on VR product visualization. A customer has provided us with IES profiles, and after a couple hours of unsuccessful attempts I found they are only supported if you’re using the deferred renderer (which it seems is not documented anywhere).

Is Epic working on supporting forward rendered IES profiles, and if so when can I hope it will be done? For now I’ll deal with the performance hit from turning off forward rendering, but it would be nice to know if I will be able to switch back in the future, or if I should plan to have a specific version on deferred just for IES profiles.

Thank you

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Same issue here. Would really love to use them, or have some kind of workaround, for forward rendering (VR project).
Thanks!

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Baking the lights as Static works with IES on forward rendering. Same goes for Rect Lights. It’s just that you can’t see it before baking the light.