How do I pick a light in the 3D Viewport?

kitfox

I have a big scene that I've exported from Blender and I'm now trying to light it. I've added about 20 omni lights to my scene and am now trying to arrange them to light my scene effectively. However, I'm finding this difficult since as far as I can tell, there is no way to pick lights in the 3D viewport. I can pick them in the Scene node tree, but this is not very helpful since all my lights are named very similar things like OmniLight2, OmniLight6, OmniLight19, etc. This makes it difficult to move one light slightly, then switch to a nearby one to compensate.

Is there a way to pick a light in the viewport so I can move it?

Calinou

I can pick them in the Scene node tree, but this is not very helpful since all my lights are named very similar things like OmniLight2, OmniLight6, OmniLight19, etc. This makes it difficult to move one light slightly, then switch to a nearby one to compensate.

Renaming your lights to be more descriptive (e.g. SmallLamp, FireLight, …) is likely the way to go.

Is there a way to pick a light in the viewport so I can move it?

The 3D selection code is pretty finnicky due to how it works, and it most likely won't be redone before 4.0 (or even after), unfortunately.