LuxRender 0.6RC6 Released

Bart · September 14, 2009

RC6 of the upcoming LuxRender version has been released.

Changes since RC5:

fix for the longstanding memory eating bug (this can incur a severe performance penalty on computers with lots of cores when using light groups compared to the same scene without light groups, we’d be really interested to hear about it)
preview rendering fix and ability to read a scene from standard input
port PBRT 1.4 fixes to LuxRender
brand new luxmerger tool to merge flm files, this should be most usefull for distributing renders without using the built-in capabilities (this is still alpha quality, let us know of any issue you might find)
lots of bugs and memory leaks fixes

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LuxRender 0.6RC6 Announcement

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

10 responses

abhifx

14 September 2009 at 15:29

another rc? with each rc they keep on adding new features. God knows when they will release the final 0.6 version

Minifig

14 September 2009 at 16:44

Seriously?
I do have similar feelings to abhifx….

ROUBAL

14 September 2009 at 17:01

Maybe that RC doesn’t mean Release Candidate, but Redo Completely !o)
I’m joking. Good news !

Frank

14 September 2009 at 17:22

AFAIK this is the last RC.

psychotron

14 September 2009 at 17:27

folks you should be glad that lux get new features with every RC towards final v0.6 release…
however RC6 seems to be last and it turned into final release if there is no issues
so please test it properly and thoroughly and don’t forget to post bugs and issues in rc release thread :)

psychotron

14 September 2009 at 17:29

oh my.. I don’t understand someone could complain against new features :D

JoOngle

14 September 2009 at 18:04

Yeah! I’m quite happy with new features!

KUDOS TO THE TEAM! Way to go! And thanks for this release.

Cheers,
JoOngle

Campbell Barton (ideasman42)

14 September 2009 at 18:27

Great to see another RC, especially with the lead developer dropping out.

For people who complain of too many RC’s, Blender’s RC’s should be called pre-releases. Since we pretty much know we wont release them (normally they have known bugs).

Whereas other apps release RC’s, if no problems are found they are released without any changes (never happens with blender).

As for adding features, if your not involved in the project its hard to tell but some features are fairly safe to add even close to release, depending on what code they touch. so I’d hope the lux devs are careful with this :)

sonyvaio7

14 September 2009 at 21:48

yuhuuu!

ktulhu

15 September 2009 at 21:24

yobaniy nasos!!

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