Light Helper

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V2.2.1 2026/07/20

· Updated the Light Isolation icon

· Improved performance and scalability in scenes with large numbers of lights

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V2.1.0

· Support world environment lighting exclusion (Cycles only)

· Support sun Isolation

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“A more intuitive way to control which objects a light illuminates—and to manage lights directly from the objects they affect.”

I believe this is currently the best light-exclusion workflow on Earth. If it isn’t, tell me what I can improve.

Added

Light Linking Tool

When a Light Is Selected

• Include: The light illuminates only the selected objects.
• Exclude: The light does not illuminate the selected objects.

When an Object Is Selected

• Select which lights should include or exclude the object, depending on each light’s current linking mode.

Additional Features

• Disable shadows with one click.
• Quickly switch which objects are illuminated.

Usability

• Solo individual lights.
• Adjust light exposure (EV).
• Automatically separate shared light-linking configurations.

Code Quality

• Improved overall code quality.
• Fixed several legacy issues.

Known Limitations

When an object uses an emissive material as a light source, indirect-light exclusion may not work reliably in Eevee. This is caused by limitations in Blender’s current Light Linking implementation. Using Light objects is recommended.

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v0.4.6 2026-1-26

fix LLT_PT_obj_control_panel pull bug

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v0.4.5 2026-1-26

Added support for the Eevee Next renderer.

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v0.4.4 2025-11-20

Fix: AddonPreferences get property bug

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v0.4.3 2025-11-20

Feat: Adapt Blender 5.0 API changes

Feat: support addon preferences bl_system_properties_get api

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Fix: show link object bug

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Fix: emission search algorithm

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Feat: add node_search_depth pref

Feat: Support node group search, if there are self Emission materials in the node group, they will be displayed in the light list

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Fix: material node find error

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New features

Add automatic filtering for deleted objects (Blender currently does not delete objects in light linking when you delete objects)

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New Feat

Fix

Fix a spelling error (Linkling ->Linking, sorry for my mistake)

Add Light Linking List Panel

·Automatic recognition of light and Emission attribute material objects (Power>0)

·Filter by lighting/material

·Filter by general and linking

·Support synchronous selection/mobile selection/focus selection modes

·One click turn off display lights (view and rendering)

Thank you very much for the ideas provided by Khan Lala

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New Feat

Add Light Linking List Panel

·Automatic recognition of light and Emission attribute material objects (Power>0)

·Filter by lighting/material

·Filter by general and linking

·Support synchronous selection/mobile selection/focus selection modes

·One click turn off display lights (view and rendering)

Thank you very much for the ideas provided by Khan Lala

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Optimised code

Change of category to ‘Lighting’