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UE4 Image Lights - Custom Lighting Tool

After some lighting work was taking longer than I liked I decided to go ahead and make this small but powerful lighting tool.
With it Images can be used with lights to create awesome looking quality light setups in minutes! Whats better is that in some cases I found that using this tool (while heavier on performance than regular lights) to construct more complex lighting was more performant as it technically reduced the amount of lights needed in an environment.

Currently the tool supports spotlights, point-lights and media playback for both, allowing for some really cool animated possibilities!
I also found it really useful where I just wanted to showcase and asset as these lights were very effective in creating the illusion of a complex environment that was just offscreen.

A huge thanks to Gleb Alexandrov for his inspiring blog on lighting:
https://www.creativeshrimp.com/light-texture-tutorial-1-lighting-book.html

Image Lights is available for everyone here:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/image-lights