Light-X Pro - Intuitive Lighting for Blender

Light-X Pro is an add-on that aims to streamline and enhance the lighting workflow in Blender. With Light-X Pro

Light List

• Light List Section: Presents a list of lights or light collections, with controls for adding, removing, and toggling between light and collection
• Light Color: This property allows you to adjust the strength of the light.
• Light intensity: This property allows you to adjust the strength of the light.  
• Selecting the light: This button allows you to select light in the viewport
• Visibility: Hiding/unhiding the light in the viewport.
• Solo light: Isolate a specific light for exclusive viewing by enabling solo mode.
• Track Object: (if light track an object, a button to delete the tracking constraint is shown).

Light Group

• Manages Light Groups: This panel creates, edits, and manipulates light groups in a 3D scene.
• Provides UI for Light Group List: It offers a UI (User Interface) element in the form of a list to display the light groups.
• Edits Light Group Properties: Through this list, users can edit various properties of each light group, including its name, color, and intensity.
• Enables Light Group Manipulation: The panel allows users to add new light groups, remove existing groups, and add or remove lights from a particular group.

Camera List

• Camera List Section: Presents a list of cameras or camera collections, with controls for adding, lock camera to view, and toggling between camera and collection
• Focal Length: Adjust camera focal length
• Toggle camera view: Switch between cameras with previews
• Camera Lens: Adjust camera Sensor width
• Selecting the camera: This button allows you to select camera in the viewport
• Track Object: (if camera track an object, a button to delete the tracking constraint is shown)

Camera Switch

• Displays Camera Switches: This panel shows a list of all the camera switches defined in the current scene.
• Highlights Current Camera: The camera switch corresponding to the current frame is visually highlighted to easily identify the active camera.
• Camera and Frame Properties: For each camera switch, you can see the camera object it references and its assigned frame number.
• Reorder Camera Switches: The up and down arrow buttons (^) (v) next to the frame number allow you to move the camera switch up or down in the list, changing the order in which they are activated during playback.
• Remove Camera Switch: The "X" button next to the frame number allows you to easily delete a camera switch from the list.
• Add New Camera Switch: If there are currently no camera switches defined, a button with a plus sign (+) is displayed to quickly add a new one.

Render Settings

• Main Render Settings:

  • Render Engine: Choose the rendering engine to be used (e.g., Cycles, Eevee).
  • Device (Cycles only): Specify the hardware device to be used for rendering with Cycles (CPU, GPU, etc.).
  • Resolution: Set the output image dimensions (width and height) and scaling percentage.
  • FPS (Frames Per Second): Define the frame rate for animation renders.

• Subpanels:
• Color Management: Provides settings for color management during rendering.
  • View Transform: Defines how colors are transformed from the scene's linear space to the view space.
  • Look: Controls the overall look of the rendered image (e.g., Filmic, Artistic).
  • Exposure: Adjusts the overall brightness of the rendered image.
  • Gamma: Sets the gamma correction for the final image.
• Output Settings: Configure the output file for the rendered image.
  • Path: Specify the location and filename for the rendered image.
  • Image Settings: Access settings related to image format (PNG, JPEG, etc.), compression, and color depth.
• World Settings: Control the environment settings that affect the rendered scene.
  • Transparent Film: Enables background transparency for the rendered image.
  • World Color (if Background node exists): Set the background color of the scene.
  • Add Quick Fog (if no fog present): Quickly add a fog volume to the scene. (Button disabled if fog already exists)

Studio

• Studio Management:
  • Add a new studio setup to the scene.
  • Clear the current studio setup from the scene.
• Advanced Volumetric Control (if "s18" studio is selected):
  • Assuming "Advanced Volumetric" material exists:
    • Edit the "Volume Color" of the Principled Volume node within the material.
  • For Noise Texture nodes:
    • Adjust the "Scale," "Detail," and "Roughness" properties to control the noise pattern.
  • For Color Ramp nodes (with at least 2 elements):
    • Modify the "Interpolation" type for color blending.
    • Edit the color and position of the first two color ramp elements.

Emission

• Emission Material List:
  • Dynamically displays all materials in the scene that utilize an Emission shader node within their node tree.
  • Provides immediate visual identification of the currently assigned emission material to the active object (if any).
  • Optimized for clear presentation with a designated display height of three rows.
• Contextual Awareness:
  • In the absence of an active object selection, the panel gracefully informs the user with a dedicated message.
• Material Absence Notification:
  • A clear and concise message is displayed if no materials in the scene currently employ an Emission shader.

Material Creation and Assignment:

• Add Emission Material Button:
  • Offers a prominent and easily accessible button to swiftly create a new material with an Emission shader, readily assignable to the active object.
• Batch Assign Material Button (Optional):
  • (If included) This feature provides a convenient option for assigning the active material to multiple selected objects simultaneously, streamlining the workflow.