Light Wrangler v3.1.13: Essential Lighting Add-On For Blender

Revolutionize your Blender lighting with Light Wrangler v3.1.13, an essential add-on for professional-grade illumination! Developed by Leonid Altman, this plugin simplifies light placement and customization with intuitive tools for HDRI, gobo, and IES textures. Achieve cinematic renders with minimal effort. 💡 ✨What’s Inside: – Features : – Cursor-Targeted Positioning : Add and adjust lights with a right-click, with lights following your cursor for precise placement. – Positioning Modes : Reflect, Direct, Orbit for controlling specular highlights, diffuse light, and angles. – Scrim Mode : Soft, studio-style lighting with natural falloff. – Gobo Textures : Create dramatic shadows with customizable patterns. – IES Textures : Realistic light simulation for architectural visualizations. – HDRI Integration : One-click baking of lighting setups into HDRI maps. – Interactive Adjustments : Tweak power, size, distance, and spread via mouse wheel and shortcuts (Shift/Alt/Ctrl+wheel). – What’s New in v3.1.13 (April 2025): – Fixed crashes when duplicating lights and dragging on macOS (Blender 4.4). – Improved Blender 4.3+ compatibility (resolved contact_shadows error). – New orbit sensitivity setting (0.1–2.0), with Shift reducing sensitivity by 5x. – False Color mode (F key) for lighting analysis. – Optimized algorithms for high-poly scenes, reducing memory usage. – Fixed cursor visibility and remote repository install issues. – Compatibility : Blender 2.93–4.4, Windows/macOS/Linux. – Format : .zip (~311 MB), installed via Edit > Preferences > Add-ons. – Pricing : $14 (personal use), $29 (commercial, single user), $89 (up to 5 users).