Comments on: LuxRender Material Database

By: apple fans

apple fans — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:07:05 +0000

that’s great! cool!
thanks.I searching it by google,just now!

By: Shiretoko

Shiretoko — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:14:17 +0000

@shul: See here:
http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1383
In the attachment.

By: shul

shul — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:22:33 +0000

maybe here I’ll get an answer.. where is the scene the material database is based on ?

By: ysvry

ysvry — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:28:57 +0000

if this is all open sourse cant some code wizard produce a blender version with this render included? I hate exporting to other apps.

By: Minifig

Minifig — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:25:29 +0000

Thanks!
This is just what I was looking for!

By: FishB8

FishB8 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:56:17 +0000

@noodlesgcx: That’s not really an issue in this case. The code base is a fork of PBRT. Neither the original authors of PBRT or LuxRender have expressed any interest in trying to develop a closed source rendering engine. It would totally kill the development since the whole reason many of the developers contribute is that it is GPLed code.

Furthermore I think the devs would probably be a little offended since they take great pride in LuxRender being opensource.

By: Alex Blank

Alex Blank — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:06:08 +0000

And let’s not forget aboutIndigo…But if a project is a fork of another project (in this case Luxrender being a fork of PBRT), how far could the luxrender team really get towards commercialization since the parent code is (and most likely will ALWAYS) be gpl. And Luxrender 0.6 is already much better (imo) than Indigo 1.09 (the last one I have)…
Congrats on a great OSS app.

By: noodlesgcx

noodlesgcx — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:05:15 +0000

@ShadowBane

Not exactly true. Yes, what is GPL now will always be GPL, but the authors of the code (who are the copyright holders), may at any point change their license (provided any contributors agree to it.).

For an example of this, look at Nessus. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_%28software%29
Nessus was originally GPL, and with 3.0, was change to a proprietary license.

What happened, (and what will happen if LuxRender were to do so), is a GPL fork of the last open-source release.
(see OpenVAS, the GPL fork of Nessus).

By: Shadowbane

Shadowbane — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:07:02 +0000

I hate it when people talk about how they hope gpl apps won’t go commercial…

They are GPL, they can charge money only for distribution and support, and can’t restrict how you redistribute it with or without changes.
Honestly people, read the thing http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

By: young_voter

young_voter — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:35:12 +0000

Hope LuxRender is still free after it hits version 1.