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STEP BY STEP SET UP AND UTILISE LIGHT GROUPS IN BLENDER
01 PREPARE YOUR SCENE
At the moment Light Groups only work with Cycles, so the first thing you’ll need to do is make sure that Cycles is the selected renderer for your project. Do this by going to the Render Properties panel and selecting Cycles from the Render Engine dropdown. Assuming that your model is all set up and ready to go, we can then begin with establishing our lighting. Create all the lights you want and customise them in terms of power, colour and so on.
02 CREATE LIGHT GROUPS
With the lights set up, you now need to create some Light Groups and add specific lights into those groups. At this stage, take a step back, and make a plan for how you want to split your lights up. For more complex scenes, it can be helpful to make a spreadsheet to keep track. Then, go to your View Layer Properties panel and scroll down to Light Groups. Create all the groups you want, giving them meaningful names so you can access them easily later.
03 ADD LIGHTS TO GROUPS
It's now time to add your lights into specific groups. Select the lights that you want to go into your first group and go to the Object Properties panel. Scroll
