Interface tour

The panel has six parts, top to bottom.

#	Part	What it is for
1	Header	Plugin icon (your licence), title and version, and a button to create each light type
2	View bar	Row density, Show Keyframes, Group by, Row colour, and Disable / Enable Viewport
3	Tabs	Compact, Standard, Advanced, Texture — which columns the table shows
4	Light table	One row per Redshift light
5	Search and Global Preview	Filter the rows by name; viewport preview controls for every light
6	Action bar	Columns…, selection, delete, reset, organise, targets, light materials, AOVs

The panel’s menu bar has Edit ▸ Preferences… (see Preferences) and Edit ▸ License… (see Licensing & support).

1. Header

• Plugin icon (left) — opens your licence. Same as Edit ▸ License….
• Light-type icons (right) — one each for RS Infinite, Point, Spot, Area, Dome, IES, Portal and Physical Sun. Click one to add that light to the scene; hover to see which is which. See Creating & organising lights.

2. View bar

Control	What it does
Compact / Comfort	Row height. Compact fits more lights on screen; Comfort gives taller rows that are easier to hit. Remembered between sessions.
Show Keyframes	Shows or hides the key diamonds at the left of value cells. With them hidden you can’t set keys from the table. See Keyframes & takes.
Group by	No grouping, Group by Type, Group by Layer, Group by Light Group or Group by Take. See Search, grouping & solo.
Row colour	No row color, Color by Layer or Color by Light Group — tints each row with its layer’s or light group’s colour.
Disable Viewport / Enable Viewport	Hides every Redshift light in the editor viewport, or shows them all again. Rendering is not affected.

3. Tabs

Each tab shows a different set of columns over the same lights:

• Compact — the essentials: intensity, exposure and spread.
• Standard — adds colour, temperature, shadow, the main contribution values and the light group.
• Advanced — every light column, including shadow detail, sampling, scattering, toon and caustics.
• Texture — intensity, exposure, colour and the texture or environment.

Hide the columns you don’t use with Columns…. See Tabs & columns.

4. Light table

One row per Redshift light in the active document. Rows are read live from the scene, so a change made in the Attribute Manager shows in the table straight away, and the other way round.

• Selecting rows selects the lights in the Object Manager, and selecting lights in the Object Manager highlights their rows.
• Editing a value on a selected row changes the same value on every selected light.
• Cells that don’t apply to a light — Exposure on a Physical Sun, for example — are greyed out.

When the scene has no Redshift lights, the table says so and points you to the light icons.

See Editing values for every way to change a value.

5. Search and Global Preview

• Search — type part of a light’s name to show only the matching rows. Clear the field to show every light again.
• GLOBAL PREVIEW — viewport-only controls that apply to every Redshift light at once:
  • Wireframe — turns Redshift’s viewport illumination display on or off for every light except Dome lights.
  • Illumination Adjustment — scales the brightness of the lights’ viewport preview, from 0 to 1. It does not change render values and is not recorded for undo.

6. Action bar

Button	What it does
Columns…	Choose which columns this tab shows. See Tabs & columns.
Select All / Deselect All	Selects every Redshift light, or clears the selection.
Delete Selected	Deletes the selected lights after you confirm. Undoable.
Reset to Defaults	Resets the selected lights’ values to their type’s defaults.
Organise Lights	Moves every Redshift light under one labelled null, sorted by type.
Add Target	Adds target nulls so the selected lights aim at them.
Add Graph	Gives the selected lights an RS Light Material. See Light material graphs.
Create Light AOVs / Update Light AOVs	Creates or updates Light Group AOVs. See Light Group AOVs.

Delete Selected, Reset to Defaults, Organise Lights and Add Target are covered in Creating & organising lights.

Panel width

On Windows, a floating panel resizes to the narrowest width that shows the current tab’s columns whenever you switch tab or change the columns. Turn this off in Preferences (Fit floating panel width to each tab). A docked panel keeps the width of its dock, and on macOS the panel is never resized for you.

Within the table, Intensity, Exposure, Spread and the texture field share whatever width is left over, so widening the panel gives their sliders more room.