On/Off Switch for Lights

This one is long but could not avoid it after a full day trying this new amazing light management feature with preview 3:

• Why would I want icons for the lights if I cannot interact with them, select it to change its properties. Please remember that for the moment its impossible to hide the light icons, at least with the Archicad version

• Being able to spot them on the Enscape window is great, but WE need controls for selection, icon size otherwise it’s just noise to our eyes

• The icon symbol works well and it’s easy to distinguish them. The way WE see the icons is confusing, so if I am looking to a blank white wall that I can only see the wall, all light icons are still there, this is very confusing

• It’s good to zoom out and it automatically groups lights that are close to each other, thus simplifying it and being also clickable to expand that group of lights also works. But you need to zoom out a lot. I do understand that icons are larger when lights are closer to the camera and smaller if away from it but it does not work because most of the time I should not see them, only when other objets are not blocking the view

• Light names should have the name that WE gave them with the authoring tool. In Archicad it’s the element ID and it should stay that way. Where did you get the name from lights?!? WE do not want to spend time again to do the same, numbering and naming all lights. In Archicad WE usually group them just like it will work out once built. In example, one switch controls 3 lights in real life, them its a group of 3 lights with a proper name and number to identify the group

• Light presets should preserve the grouping made with the authoring tool, otherwise WE will have to group them again for these presets

• Light color should have presets also, not only a color palette to choose from. The light industry has its own way for coloring light and its intensity. Either use standards or kelvin or something related to technical lighting

• The candela (cd) unit is good to have but in Europe WE use LUX (lx) and it would be great to also have that as a choice for units

• Turning all lights off does not seem to work. It does turn some off but not all. Not sure why but managing them on and off is hard and tricky. Please remember that like with materials, what you do in Enscape happens in Archicad, integration is the key

• Light source radius is good to be controlled from the light properties but should be possible to get wider angles.

• IES light should be possible to upload an IES file. Beam angle for spot lights should not be limited to 90 degrees

• Rectangular and area lights should be flippable to help us out to invert lights

Thats all for now but will be testing it more with the hopes that the final version will come out even better!

Cheers

not on and off you should remove and work in the problem the problem when we used light rectangle planar or spotlight in the mirrror the rectangle doesnt need to show in the mirror as an emissive light cause in the render its destroy the workflow we used rectangle planar and spot light as fake sunlight thats why we need to handles this next update hope the comapany listens to our problems

Any updates to this, it's been "Planned" for a while. Is there a system that gives more info/feedback than the broad stroke of "Planned"? Is there a timeline? Looking forward to seeing this one implemented!

I saw this part proposed a long time ago, but why doesn't Enscape handle it?