BlendLuxCore

Blender Addon for LuxCoreRender

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 -DCMAKEBUILDTYPE=Release
• build: cmake --build blc-build

To create a Latest release, use the option -DCMAKEBUILDTYPE=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.