Lights

Lights

A lit scene fills up fast — a key light, a fill, a rim, a sparkle light for the stones — and lights are easy to lose in the viewport because they are usually placed out of frame. The Lights panel puts every light in the document in one list, where you can find, select and toggle them without hunting.

• Add light — pick a light type and place it in the viewport, without leaving the panel. The types themselves are covered in the Lights commands.
• Light selection to viewport — selecting a light in the list also selects it in the viewport, so the list becomes the fastest way to grab the light you want to move.
• Show groups — displays light groups in the list.
• Show lights on layers that are off — keeps lights visible in the list even when their layer is hidden, so a light can’t disappear from the panel just because its layer did.