Gaffer v3.2.3 for Blender Free Download
Gaffer is a Blender add-on that helps you light your scenes by presenting all the right settings in convenient panels for quick access and experimentation.
As a lighting artist, I created this add-on to help me with my everyday work. Not only did it speed up my lighting workflow, but it meant I could focus on creating better lighting without getting distracted searching for buttons.
The UI has been meticulously designed to provide you with all the settings you need, as you need them, for all the lamps in your scene at once.
You can choose to view only the basic controls like strength and color, or expand each lamp to show more advanced options like shadow size, sample count, diffuse/specular toggles, falloff type and much more.
But Gaffer isn’t just a little collection of things you can already do, it includes tools that will speed up your workflow and help you focus on the task at hand. The Solo button next to each light will temporarily hide all other lights except the one you clicked on, so you can see exactly what it’s doing without being distracted or misguided by other lights. When you’re done, Gaffer remembers your previous arrangement of light visibility and restores it.
New in Gaffer v3 is a robust HDRI manager, with the ability to quickly switch between your HDR environment maps and adjust brightness, rotation, warmth, etc. all with a simple and intuitive interface. No need to fiddle with any nodes or wait for thumbnails of giant files to load.
It’s built to handle whatever HDRIs you have on your hard drive, but if you don’t have that many, there’s a button to download free HDRIs from Poly Haven in a single click.
One click away is an automatically generated JPG background for up to 4x memory savings, with an optional darkened JPG version to retain specular highlights in reflections.
An advanced search and tagging system can be used to organize your library and make it easier to find the perfect HDRI in your future projects.
“It’s not often I invest in add-ons, and even more rare that I endorse them, but I fully stand behind Gaffer, and the work Greg has put into it. Worth every penny, this lightweight addition to my workflow has sped up the process of lighting my scenes, giving me immediate, unfettered access to all of my HDR environments whilst simultaneously taking the guesswork out of choosing the right setup. Take the plunge – you won’t regret it!” – Jackdarton
