Radiant - Light Management Tool

Radiant is a Addon that helps manage your lights in your scene through the side panel. There are also a few other feature provided for lighting needs in Radiant

Light Panel

List the Light in Your Scene to the Side Panel and access multiple light at once. It gives you a Filterable Overview of the Light in Your Scene.

Why Not Outliner?

Outliner can be cluttered sometimes, especially on more complex scene, this Panel helps you focus on the Light and filter out other object types.

Advanced Filtering

Radiant Light Panels Offers advanced filtering option for you to pinpoint and targets lights in your scene

you can filter your scene via

• Light Type
• Light Color (Hue Threshold, Saturation Range and Value Range)
• Light Strength
• Light Name
• Tags

Tagging System

Assign comma separated tags, and making it easier for you to categorize your lights in your scene without needing long and verbose light

God Ray

God Ray is Fake “Light Ray / Glow” that is Geometry and Shader Based, It Attempt to Emulate the Volumetric Look

It Produces Less Noise, Doesnt Flicker, and Works Best in Eevee, this can be useful for Stylized Lighting

God Ray Variations

If the God Ray use Light as Driver, it means the Custom Property in God Ray Object is driven by Custom Property in the Light data

Notes

While it is Compatible with Cycles, because it heavily relies on transparency to work, it might not look as good in cycles, and you might need to increase your transparent light bounce for it to work, which could increase in render time

Radiant Tools

Some More Minor tools that can be useful in some situation

Create Mesh From Area Lights

Create Mesh Plane From Area Light, Useful if you want to have a Emission Plane for your Area Lights

Add Shadow Catcher

Add A Premade Shadow Catcher Plane from Shift-A Add Panel

If the Shadow Catcher Appears Black in Eevee, Try Increase the Strength of your Lights

Add Volume Cube

Add A Simple Premade Cube with Principled Volume Node Material Applied

This is an Extremely Simple Setup, this feature is just here to save a few clicks

Changelog

29/12/2021: Addon Released!

30/12/2021: Minor Update: Adding Some Extra Cycles option to Light Panel

27/05/2022: Geometry Node and Material now uses Attribute Instead of Drivers

14/08/2022: Added “Hide Linked Duplicates” and “Make Single” for linked lights

05/07/2024: Radiant 1.4.0

• Fixed Text Raymesh Error
• Minor UI Change (Filter Now Next to Search Box)
• Fix wrong label for “Active Light Properties -> Radiant Tools” in Preferences Panel Tab
• Tested in Blender 4.1
• Preparation for the Addon to migrate with Blender 4.2 (Not Gurenteed until Blender is officially released)

24/07/2024: Radiant 1.5.0

• No New Feature, this is mainly a compatibility update and patches
• Convert the addon into a Extension and Compatible with Blender 4.2
• Works in Blender 4.2
• Light Property is updated to the new Eevee Next and Cycles