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  • Published 29 Sep 2023

Light Linking for EEVEE or EEVEE Next.

I know Light Linking is coming to Cycles, but Light Linking for EEVEE or EEVEE Next would be great. Because we mostly use EEVEE as our render engine, and i think it could be a huge deal if it was implemented into EEVEE.

Thank you,

Paul.

This idea was marked as a duplicate of Light linking for EEVEE! PLEASE!.
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paul-arthur
29 Sep 2023

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salman2

light linking may help a lot whenIi'm using Blender for pixel art and Ghibli style and light helps for shadows or light for a single object in the scene

pablovazquez

Aaaand it's done! Contributed by Chris Clyne (nickname lateasusual).

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thorn

Goo Engine has light groups; take a look and see if that meets your needs.

paul-arthur Author

Thank you for answering Thorn. I will look into it.

David-Seul

I tried that out. Works well, but didn't find a download link for Goo Engine at first and then tried to build it by the source code. Errored in the last step. So I paid the Patreon of Goo Engine, where a download link for a ready-made Blender build can be found. Worth it to me.

But seriously: Having this functionality in Blender natively would help a ton of people.

zuorion

Clément Foucault (author of eevee): No, light linking isn't planned to be implemented in EEVEE-Next first release and isn't listed here. It might be implemented at some point but I can't say when.

paul-arthur Author

Thank you Clément for answering. Fingers crossed lol. Hoping it will come at some point.

zuorion

I'm not Clement, its just his quote from developers channel (i dont remember which one)

krysidian

I really hope it will come sooner rather than later since Eevee already is a heavily stylized engine and the point of light linking is stylization. They just fit together so well already.