Light Master – Click-to-Place Lighting & Animated Gobos for Blender

Light Master puts a light exactly where you want its reflection. Point at any surface in the viewport and the light follows your mouse: its highlight lands right under the cursor, already at a sensible distance, size and brightness for that object. Click to keep it. Scroll to change brightness, hold Shift for size and Ctrl for distance, and the subject stays equally bright as the light moves.

Select a placed light and a ring of round controls appears around it in the viewport: brightness, temperature, color, size, distance, cone, gobo, reflection shape and more. Press a control and drag left, right, up or down, and the light changes live. Click a control for exact values. The sidebar stays short: place a light, Surprise Me, one-click setups and the list of your lights.

Three placement modes cover the whole job. Reflect places a highlight on glossy surfaces such as car paint, bottles, chrome or eyes. Direct shines the light straight onto the clicked spot for a key light. Rim puts the light behind the subject so it grazes the edge you click.

Every light can cast a gobo, the shadow pattern lighters put in a beam for realism. The built-in library has windows, blinds, shutters, fences, palms, monstera, tree canopies, water caustics, clouds and stage patterns, and many of them move: leaves sway, caustics ripple, clouds drift and fans turn, looping over your timeline. Sharpness slides the pattern card along the beam from a soft dappled shadow to a crisp projection, just like a real cookie on set. Gobos work in both Cycles and EEVEE, on area, spot and point lights.

Features

• Click to place: the reflection, light or rim lands where you click, on smooth curved surfaces too
• Automatic distance, size and power from the object's size, with Keep Brightness when moving
• Viewport control ring around the selected light: drag to change brightness, temperature, color, size, distance, cone, gobo and reflection shape
• Live controls while placing: brightness, size, distance, roll, sharpness, mode, light type and gobo
• Gobo library of windows, blinds, foliage, water, sky and stage patterns, many of them animated loops
• Gobo sharpness, size, angle, offset, strength, speed and hold frame
• Reflection shapes for Cycles: softbox, strip box, octabox, ring, umbrella, beauty dish and more
• Color temperature in Kelvin, reflection and diffuse amounts, light only the subject
• One-click setups: Three-Point, Product Strips, Window Daylight, Golden Hour Leaves, Noir Blinds, Pool Caustics and more
• Surprise Me builds a complete new key, fill and rim lighting with a colour mood around your subject
• Solo a light, False Color exposure check and a list of every placed light
• Each light keeps its own pattern card, which never shadows other lights

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.