New Processing Components: Illumination, Shadow, Reflect

I had been joking about it in another thread.

Genetica is a cool program imo these would be great to have in FF, maybe also a dedicated glass material, i know theres ways to get the glass look but why not add a material out also as theres a metal one which is no doubt similar in ways so im sure the devs could do that And in combination with the things you mention some great effects/textures to be made im sure.

Well, FF does lighting with ease too, I already told people here that lack of point lighting you all seem to crave for some strange reason , is only a learnability plus UI stuff. About shadows -- the best part of the effect the Crapadilla demonstrated (large colorful picture of something that appears to be cut from paper to me) comes not from hard shadows, but from carefully attached region-based gradients. Ambient occlusion, if it will make it into 2.0 in one way or another, will mostly eliminate the need for hard shadows (problems with seamlessness included).
As for "shaders" as normal components (i.e. having the ability to connect the "shader" output to another component, as opposed to the current scheme of shaders being limited to root component) -- it may or may not happen, since there are problems with seamlessness (as usual) and performance, that may prohibit inclusion of "shaders" as normal components.