v3.1.2

• Fix UI disappearing when expanding area light
• Show radius/labels in rendered shading mode and make them obey the viewport overlay toggle
• Lights in nested collections were considered hidden

v3.1.1

• Show HDRI Handler for Eevee
• Fix 'Selected Only' mode for radius display
• Don't show 'Apply Exposure' button for unsupported engines
• Use the same icon for Solo buttons everywhere

v3.1 Major release!

• Now working in Blender 2.8.
• Most features will only work in Cycles, however some will also now work in unsupported engines (e.g. Eevee). Full support for Eevee will come in the next major release.
• You can now add multiple HDRI folders instead of just one, useful if your HDRIs are stored on different hard drives, network storage or Google Drive folders.
• Added horizon shifting tools to lower or raise the horizon while trying to keep it looking natural.
• You can now save the current HDRI settings as the default for that particular HDRI and easily restore them later, or reset all the HDRI settings to factory defaults.
• Added previous/next paddles to more quickly increase or decrease the HDRI resolution used.
• Added an "Aim light using 3D view" function.
• Added a global exposure control that lets you adjust the brightness of all lights at once.
• Fix some harmless errors that pop up after enabling size/label visualization and then switching to another editor type.
• Better detection of light strength value when using more complex node setups.
• Light aiming tools now support both Quaternion and Euler rotation systems.

v3.0.4

Minor bug fix release:

• New hdrihaven.com broke things - now the "get free HDRIs" button works again

v3.0.2

Minor bug fix release:

• Fix broken thumbnail gen when there's a space in the path to Blender
• Make HDRI selector smaller in toolbar

Bug Fix Release

• Fix corrupt thumbnails being generated
• Fix random crashes when generating thumbnails
• Fix error when generating thumbnail from file starting with a delimiter (e.g. '_')
• Optionally ignore 8-bit images to avoid detecting example renders as HDRIs. Enable "Detect 8-bit images as HDRIs" in the User Preferences to keep the old behavior
• Optionally skip generating thumbnail if only a big HDRI is available to avoid long waits
• Use pre-existing thumbnail or preview files if there are any
• Don't include _thumb or _preview files in HDRI variation list
• Don't try to generate thumbnails for non-image files
• Ignore _MACOSX folder
• Log some info to a text file to help with debugging if necessary. Log file only records last 7 days to avoid growing to a huge file over time.
• Add some debugging tools

New HDRI Manager

Video demo of new features: https://youtu.be/u0ccVBvPEsA

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.

One click away is an automatically generated JPG background for up to 4x memory savings, with an optional darkened JPG to retain specular highlights in reflections.

An advanced search and tagging system can be used to organise your library and make it easier to find the perfect HDRI in your future projects.

If you don't already have a vast HDRI library, don't worry, there's a button to download all free 1k HDRIs from HDRI Haven in a single click.