Lighting Man (blender addon)

This tool creates light ball with your desired reflection easily.

It read the object surface under your cursor, then calculate the required angle and location).

This addon is designed for placing light easily in the scene. 

Sometimes we are using metal material and we want to have cool reflection at the edges or interesting location, it is hard to move the light manually to make it reflect. 

This tool allow you to place the light with desired reflection easily.

Usage

After installed the tool, you can find its panel in the blender right-hand side tool shelf.

There is a button called "Place" in the Lighting Man panel.

During placing, you can press keys to change the setting of the light.

D key : change distance

S key : change size

E key : change light intensity

Adjust the value : scroll the mouse or press arrow up/down key.

Confirm value : press spacebar key or enter key or left click.

Also, you can change the light-type (Point, Sun, Spot, Area) by pressing 1,2,3,4 key.

1 key : Point

2.key : Sun

3 key : Spot

4 key : Area

After all, you can left click on the screen to confirm the light placement.

Tested on blender 2.83 and all 2.9x.

Update

Version 1.2.0

• Support Blender 4.0.0

Version 1.1.0

- Added a yellow "reflection line" from the light to the surface. Now you can clearly see the reflection direction of the light.

- Added a new "Normal mode". Now you can press N key to toggle Normal mode. In Normal mode, the light is placed along the face normal. This is very handy for placing area light in the scene.

Version 1.0.1

- Improved the control. Use mouse scroll to adjust the values.

Enjoy !