BlendLuxCore

Blender Addon for LuxCoreRender

![Example Render](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8af60a5338d88e4bfaf79bfa19adaaf951532838d26fe7aaa9ca015e9f08b0ee/68747470733a2f2f6c7578636f726572656e6465722e6f72672f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323032352f30322f6461726b5f6d6f64655f776964652e6a7067) 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.**