BlendLuxCore

<p align="center"> <h1 align="center">BlendLuxCore</h1> </p> <p align="center"> <b>Blender Addon for LuxCoreRender</b> </p>

This addon integrates the LuxCore render engine into Blender. It offers advanced features like accelerated rendering of indirect light and efficient rendering of caustics.

Supported Blender Versions

• BlendLuxCore v2.10.x supports Blender versions 4.2LTS and 4.3.
• Support for Blender 4.4+ is experimental and not recommended for production use!
• Supported platforms are Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel, MacOS ARM

Previous BlendLuxCore releases:

• Blender 2.93 is supported by BlendLuxCore v2.6.
• Blender 2.83-2.92 are supported by BlendLuxCore v2.5.
• Blender 2.83 is supported by BlendLuxCore v2.4.
• Blender 2.80, 2.81 and 2.82 are supported by BlendLuxCore v2.2 and v2.3.
• Blender 2.79 is supported by BlendLuxCore v2.0, v2.1 and v2.2.
  Supported platforms are Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel

Installation

From latest release (recommended)

• Find the latest suitable release of BlendLuxCrore on the release page:
  https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore/releases
• Note: the release labelled "Latest" is a nightly build and may be particularly unstable even compared to alpha or beta release versions!
• From the release assets, download extension BlendLuxCore-*.zip
• Open Blender and follow "Install from disk" procedure (https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preferences/extensions.html)

Beforehand, you may want to uninstall previous version of BlendLuxCore: look in the "Get Extensions" panel.

See also https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/BlendLuxCore_Installation for a more detailed guide.

Building locally from source

Note: It is recommended to build the extension using GitHub Actions in a local fork!

Prerequisites: you need cmake and blender installed and in your PATH

Build extension:

• clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore.git
• configure: cmake -S BlendLuxCore -B blc-build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
• build: cmake --build blc-build

To create a Latest release, use the option -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Latest in the step configure.

The build script then places the collected zip-file in the blc-build subfolder.

Open Blender and follow "Install from disk" procedure (https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preferences/extensions.html)

Beforehand, you may want to uninstall previous version of BlendLuxCore: look in the "Get Extensions" panel.

Important Links

Homepage: https://luxcorerender.org/
Wiki: https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/
Forums: https://forums.luxcorerender.org/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/chPGsKV
Gallery: https://luxcorerender.org/gallery/
Example Scenes: https://luxcorerender.org/example-scenes/

In case of questions or support, please open an issue here on GitHub, or get in touch via the Forums or our Discord server.