soft shadows from spot lights

currently the spot lights (including ies lights) emit from a single source, meaning that the shadows are sharp. having a circular area light option would solve this problem. even better would be to have a singular light object, that you can then chose the shape of. corona does this very nicely. see the screenshots below:

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Hello ,

Thank you for posting in the community your suggestion and completely agree this would be very helpful. Would you be able to submit your idea in the road-map and reference this the for the images: https://portal.productboard.com/7pu88c9kpmqtzt8hwg6arujh/tabs/4-under-consideration

Kind regards,

Vincent B.

Hey Vincent, thanks for your reply. I will go ahead and do that. As some other users have mentioned, I find it useful to also post them here so that 1-I can include pictures, 2-it is visible for other users.