BlendLuxCore

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

BlendLuxCore Wheels

This is a special, experimental version of the add-on, based on LuxCore Python wheels. This version is not recommended for production use.

Supported Blender Versions

• Blender 4.2+ is supported by the latest version Supported platforms are Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel, MacOS ARM

Old BlendLuxCore releases (non-wheel):

• 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 BlendLuxCore Wheels on the release page:
  https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore/releases
  (Caveat: do not get confused with plain BlendLuxCore!)
• 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.

Building locally from source

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

Build extension:

• clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore.git --branch for_blender_4.2_wheels
• 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.

Links

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