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.

“Lighting in Blender has never been this intuitive. Gaffer is your digital assistant when it comes to giving life to your scenes. A hassle-free tool and a must-have!” – Reynante Martinez

Simple, Fast Interface

A Better HDRI Handler

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.

Useful Visualizations

The size of a lamp controls how soft its shadow is – this is key to creating good lighting, but it’s hard to imagine what it’ll look like when you’re just typing in numbers. Gaffer lets you display the lamp size directly in the 3D view as colorful outlines around each lamp so that you can visually understand how the light will behave.

You can also display the name of each light in the 3D view for quick identification. As a bonus, this promotes good naming standards for better organization 🙂

Free Updates, Forever
I’m a lighting artist myself, which means that I’m constantly adding new features and improving this add-on for myself as well as for you. So once you purchase Gaffer, you’ll also be able to get all future updates without ever having to take your wallet out again.

Just take a look at the change-log below to see how this add-on has evolved over the years and how it will continue to grow in future.

Render Engines
In Blender 2.9 & 3.0+:
All major features work in both Cycles and Eevee.

For other render engines, only basic support such as the Solo button, hiding, selecting and renaming lights currently work.

In Blender 2.7:
The lighting panel works for both Cycles and Blender Render (aka Blender Internal).

The HDRI Handler only works for Cycles, as Blender Render doesn’t fully support HDRI lighting anyway.

v3.2.9
2025/11/27

Fix thumbnail generation not doing anything in Blender 5.0
v3.2.8
2025/11/26

Fix another error when generating JPG versions in Blender 5.0 

Change-log
v3.2.7
2025/11/17

Fix brightness clamp not working in Blender 5.0
Fix error when generating JPG versions in Blender 5.0a 

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