by Eqkoss·Workflow
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Lumos stands out in the Blender extensions library for bundling light creation, editing and interactive placement behind pie menus and shortcuts in the 3D View. It carries a five-star rating across its reviews and more than 23,000 downloads.
Lumos is a light editor and manager for Blender, developed by Eqkoss. It brings pie menus and tools into the 3D View to speed up the lighting process, along with interactive operators for placing lights in a scene.
The add-on centers on shortcut-driven panels and modes. A Light Panel Editor lists every light in the scene and lets you modify them, while a Light Manager in the N-panel creates lights in a chosen collection at either the world or cursor position, and offers show or hide all, isolate, lock, look-through and delete actions on a selected light. The Light Edit Tool adds an Edit Mode for adjusting energy, forward position, color, hue and value, plus Normals, Reflection and Shadow modes that place a light interactively according to the surface normal, its reflection or the shadow it casts. A Preserve Energy option keeps intensity consistent regardless of distance.
Lumos is compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer, requires no special permissions and is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
Lumos is best for blender artists who want to create, manage and interactively place multiple lights without leaving the 3D View.
Lumos is completely free to download and use.
Lumos is compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer, so it runs on the current long-term-support release and versions after it. One reviewer reported it working on Blender 4.5.2. The add-on requires no special permissions in Blender. If you're on a build older than 4.2, you'd need to update Blender before using it. For the exact supported range, check the developer's page.
Lumos installs like other Blender extensions: you can drag and drop the add-on into Blender, or download the package and use Install from Disk in the extensions preferences. It ships as a small package and requires no special permissions. Once enabled, its tools live in the 3D View, reachable through pie menus and shortcuts such as CTRL plus the quote key for the Light Panel Editor. French AZERTY users should note the quote key corresponds to the squared (²) key.
Lumos is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, a free and open-source license. It is listed as free in this catalog. The add-on requires no special permissions when installed in Blender, and issues can be reported through the developer's GitHub page. The GPL v3 or later terms let you use, study and modify the add-on. For the current licensing terms and any updates to them, refer to the developer's page.
Lumos opens its Light Panel Editor with CTRL plus the quote key in the 3D View, which lists every light in the scene and lets you modify them. The Light Manager appears in the N-panel via SHIFT plus the quote key, and pressing L with a light selected activates the Light Edit Tool. On AZERTY keyboards, the quote key is the squared (²) key. These shortcuts drive most of the add-on's workflow inside the 3D View.
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