I also recommend a mentor so that you get more direction and at the same time build a relationship with an industry contact. I recommend this mentor, https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothée-mathon-41896b158/ Though you would still need to work on fundamentals before a mentor accepts you. For this I recommend Feng Zhu's…
@brurpo Those arealight corners can currently not be queried inside ShaderFX. They would need to be added (had no idea they were exposed to the API to be honest!)