Lumos

WHAT IS LUMOS ?

• Lumos is a light editor & manager. It will allow you to speed up your lighting process and will bring you some additional features.

• It comes with pie menus and tools that will give you more flexibility in your creation process.

• New Tool unlock artistic light placement in your scene by giving you acces to new interative operators.

FEATURES

WARNING: For french users (AZERTY), QUOTE key(") is SQUARRED key (²)

• Light Panel Editor : press CTRL + "(QUOTE) in the 3D View : List all the light of the scene and modify them.

• Light Manager : N-PANEL :

  1. press SHIT + "(QUOTE) in the 3D View when no light is selected : Create lights in a choosen collection and decide where those lights are created (at world position or cursor position)
  2. press SHIT + "(QUOTE) in the 3D View with a light selected : Show/Hide All, Isolate, Lock, LookThrought and Delete.

• Light Edit Tool : press L in the 3D View with a selected light

  1. Edit Mode : press 1 (ONE) in the 3D View : Keep the standard control & add some custom features:
     • E : Increase/decrease the light energy by moving horizontally.
     • F : Move forward/toward in local Z Axe.
     • C : Change light's color.
       1. C + X : Change light's hue.
       2. C + Y : Change light's value.
  2. Normals Mode : press 2 (TWO) in the 3D View : Interactively places the light according to the normal.
  3. Reflection(Specular) Mode : press 3 (THREE) in the 3D View : Interactively places light according to its reflection.
  4. Shadow Mode : press 4 (FOUR) in the 3D View : Interactively places light according to the shadow cast.
  5. Preserve Energy : Enale or disable : Interactively changes the light intensity to keep the same intensity regardless of distance.