How to use a baked area light?

[ArachnidAnimal]

Hello,
I’m trying to experiment with a baked area light. But I am clueless as to how to position it. It comes up as a square shape. How are area lights supposed to be setup/positioned? I’m trying to set it up for a room.

Thanks.

[ArachnidAnimal]

I’ve tried playing around with it, and it really is not making sense to me how to use the area light.
This is what I get:

The bright white light is from the area light. It goes a certain distance than stops. I don’t see a setting for range of the light. I looked around for help and couldn’t find an example of a successful area light.
(Note the other lights you see are from other point lights, so that is not related to the area light).

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[KEngelstoft]

Here is an example with some baked area lights.

2327262–157090–409-AreaLights.7z (3.63 KB)

[ArachnidAnimal]

@KEngelstoft

Here is an example with some baked area lights.

Ok, thanks for the example. I see what I was doing wrong: the area light was not placed close enough to the geometry to have any affect.