Scene Material Override Improvements

Blender has very useful Override function to control the Scene. It’s extremely helpful at a lighting stage in the pipeline. You can just apply a material to the scene and start lighting it not distracted by materials and only focusing on value and shapes created with light.

Unfortunately it’s not easy to switch back and forth between Override on/off states. You have to remove and than again assign material to go back and forth. It’s too many clicks especially if you have a long list of materials.

Here is how it can be improved.

1. Make it possible to toggle on/off the Override option. So once you've attached the override material its a matter of one click to go back and forth.
2. Make sure the toggle can be added to favorites drop down menu so it's even easier to access it from any place if a user decided to add it to favorites.

Make it even more advanced.

I prefer to use mesh lights to light my scenes quite often. If I use my usual workflow and enable Override material it'll also override my mesh lights material. As a result mesh lights won't work.

3. Make it possible to exclude mesh lights. It's probably best to use Collections to organaze mesh lights and then exclude them.
4. It's best if individual objects/collections can be excluded included as well as the complete list.