Visual Gizmo for increasing SUN LIGHT softness
We already have a gizmo to make the point light softer, the same thing is available for spotlight as well as area light, I think the time requires us to have a visual gizmo for making sunlight shadow softer
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Absolutely!
This should also be relatively easy for a new developer to code, since there are examples for all other light types.
A couple of mockups were actually already made here! projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/104280
Weizhen Huang did an amazing job with improving this, unfortunately not all the proposed improvements were finalized. I hope that it can be continued someday.
Having gizmos for all important light functions would be great. Also, don't know why 'scaling' isn't linked to, for example radius (softness) on a point light.
That's a great idea having a visual gizmo for adjusting sunlight softness would significantly improve usability. Unlike point, spot, or area lights, sunlight often requires indirect parameter tweaking like angle or shadow bias to control softness, which can be unintuitive. A dedicated visual tool would streamline this process and give artists more direct, intuitive control over sunlight shadows. Definitely a worthy feature request!