Hey ! Thank you so much for delivering VXGI 2.0 and VXAL! I’ve had an absolute blast playing with it so far, and it’s closer to perfect now than ever before! I do have a single recommendation that I believe would greatly enhance its’ capabilities!!
I’m no engineer like you, so please bear with me while I noob my way through . 
Setting up an Area Light has been dreamy, and I love how one can set it up with a material for the plane and a texture for the light emissive - does pose a restriction, however, in that the light is ‘stuck’ I guess - in being that it’s static - it would be AAAAMMMAAAZZZIIINNNGGG if it was possible to apply the material itself as emissive to the light, where the material’s emissive value is output as the area light - OR - to be able to plug either a media texture or scene capture 2d into it as well. These features would MASSIVELY improve the flexibility of the area lights!!
I did manage to do on my own using a veeeeery expensive (and therefore totally unreasonable) workaround - I built a blueprint that takes the output of a scene capture 2d texture, saves it overwriting a texture2d that’s applied to the area light - on every tick (and I did tests to see how it would look with various tick times) and yeah - it worked - but it’s a suuuuuper expensive process, obviously. So being able to apply a material or scene capture, or media texture - into the area light texture slot as the emissive - that’d be AMAZZZZIIIINNNNGGGGGGGG!!
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Thank you for the feedback! 
Using a dynamic texture should be possible to implement, I mean, VXGI can use any texture with mip-maps as area light texture. Whether it comes from an asset or is a render target, doesn’t really matter. I just need to figure out how to properly do that in the engine.
Just using a material’s emissive output without rendering it to a texture first is not possible. It has to be a texture.