Here's a quick 2 minute instruction on how to set up Blender with LuxRender - the open source unbiased rendering engine.
blendedmarks writes:
In this tutorial I show you how to install Luxrender 1.6 into Blender 2.78
LuxRender is a physically correct, unbiased rendering engine. This means that LuxRender does not use tricks to imitate real world behaviour: all calculations are done according to mathematical models based on physical phenomena. In LuxRender we will always make the 'unbiased' design choices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPqp0L5e-rw
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Really interested in Lux. Hope to see more tutorials on Blender+Lux workflows.
Hello Ilyak if you have any suggestions on a blender + luxrender tutorial I'd love to hear them.
For the most part if you're already familiar with cycles renderer luxrender is an easy enough transition. If you encounter any problems you can always ask on the forums, the developers are very active on the forums meaning any question you may have about luxrender could be answered from the person who developed the part you're having trouble with.
Hello, Mark! Can you do a tutorial about the differences between cycles and luxrender? For those, who are not very good at cycles, but curious in luxrender. Maybe some basic settings, materials and lightning in both engines. I've tried luxrender some time ago and couldn't achieve decent image, forum is not much when you don't know what's the problem with the image and what this guys are talking about. A kind of basic tutorial would help a lot.
Hi Anna I'd love to do more Luxrender tutorials and had planned an entire Luxrender series.
However I have been busy with other projects that have stopped me from going ahead with it. I will be doing a luxrender series in which I cover everything as if luxrender was a persons first ever rendering engine. I just don't know when.
If you want to request a specific type of tutorial (how to do x in luxrender) please feel free to let me know of any suggestions you may have.
You can get a head start in the luxrender series if you want by checking out these:
http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxRender_User%27s_Manual - Chapter a time its insane to think anyone can process that amount of info at once.
http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Setting_up_volumes_for_a_glass_of_water - Highly recommended tutorial
http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Sun,_Sky_and_HDRI - Teaches you how to light in luxrender effectively.
The hdri's from my hdri pack I compiled for the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Of_VzWj7SE
Will work with luxrender.
Wish I could have come back with actual video tutorials but I hope you find this information useful.
Regards,
Mark C
Why only Windows???? There are many users of Linux as well. And normally Blender performes better in Linux environment.
Because I don't think my arch x200 thinkpad would cope well with Luxrender.