by Zyblen·Rendering
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Light-X Pro earns its place in the superhive library by pulling light list management, grouping, and linking into one interface, with IES textures and spotlight gobos layered on top.
Light-X Pro is an add-on built to streamline and enhance the lighting workflow in Blender. Its Light List presents every light and collection in a single interactive list, letting you expand collections to inspect individual lights and switch between viewing individual lights or grouped collections. Energy levels and colors can be adjusted for one light or an entire collection, and a Solo Mode isolates a light or collection while hiding the rest for focused editing.
Beyond the list, the add-on covers light groups and light linking. You can create light groups, assign them to selected lights with automatically generated sequential names, and control their energy, color, solo state, and visibility together. Light linking manages receiver objects through a UI list, with tools to create links, toggle receivers, and remove them. A random color generator adds variation across lights or groups.
IES texture support brings realistic light patterns, recommended for Blender 3.6 and later, and spotlight gobos add textures with customizable strength and scale. You also get shadow controls for both Eevee and Cycles, light-type adjustments for radius, shape, angle, and blend, custom tags, search by name, tags, or collections, and a scalable interface.
Light-X Pro is best for artists, lighting designers, and Blender users who want precise control over complex lighting setups across lights, collections, and groups.
Light-X Pro is completely free to download and use.
Light-X Pro includes IES texture support so you can apply realistic light patterns, and the developer recommends it for Blender 3.6 and later. Alongside IES, the add-on integrates spotlight gobos, letting you add intricate textures and designs to spotlights with customizable strength and scale. Both features are part of the same add-on that also handles energy, color, and visibility controls, so IES and gobo work fits alongside the rest of your lighting. For the current version and any version-specific notes, check the developer's page.
Light-X Pro provides detailed shadow controls for both Eevee and Cycles, so you can access shadow options regardless of which of these renderers your scene uses. It also exposes light-type adjustments such as radius, shape, angle, and blend, plus collection-level batch actions for visibility, selection, and movement of lights. These properties appear directly in the add-on's interface for the selected light, so you can tweak render-relevant settings without leaving the panel. Check the developer's page for details on renderer support in the current release.
Light-X Pro places its light group controls in a dedicated panel in the 3D Viewport UI, under the Light Groups tab. From there you can create new light groups, assign them to selected lights with automatically generated sequential names, and adjust energy and color for the whole group at once. The same panel handles solo mode, visibility toggles, and adding or removing individual lights while retaining the group's properties. An integrated UI list makes navigating multiple light groups straightforward as your scene grows.
Light-X Pro is listed as free in this catalog. Pricing and licensing can change over time, so for the most current terms it's best to confirm on the developer's page on superhive before you download. The add-on is published by Zyblen and covers light list management, light groups, and light linking inside Blender. If licensing details matter for your project, the developer's page is the authoritative source for what's included and how it's distributed.
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