HDRI Skylight Manager for Blender

What is it?

The HDRI Skylight Manager is a quick and easy way to place and align lights in relation to an HDRI environment.

With this plugin, you can:

• Interactively and intuitively place lights on a HDRI! No need to guess the coordinates!
• Lights automatically adjust their own color and intensity to match the appropriate pixel.
• You can rotate the HDRI at any time. The lights will rotate along with it.
• Move lights to the sun's location with just one click

Quick Start

• Select a HDRI texture
• Press "Initialize". This will generate a HDRI environment, a reference image, and empties used to control the lights. (They're a bit hard to see, by default, they start in the center of the image)
• You can position and scale the image as you want. Do not un-parent the control empties from the image. Do not delete the image or the controllers. By default, neither the empties or the reference image will appear when you render.
• Move the controllers wherever you want on the image. The angle, color, and brightness of the associated lamp will be adjusted automatically.

Notes

• Unlike in Marmoset Toolbag, the brightness of the HDRI does not affect "Skylight Brightness".
• The number of lights is soft-capped at 5. You can go above that by manually inputting a number.