The latest version of LuxRender, v0.8 RC3 is now available. This is likely the last release candidate, with a final release on the way soon. Amongst some of the new features in v0.8 are improved hybrid CPU/GPU rendering, faster micro-displacement rendering, support for STL meshes, and many other improvements and bugfixes.
Full release notes at the LuxRender forum.
You can find Blender builds with the luxblend addon included at Graphicall. Alternatively you can download the add-on separately. Instructions on doing so can be found in the LuxRender wiki.
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This build sounds well awesome been throwing luxrender round the farm here, well impressed at the flexibility of the CPU/gpu systems.
Look forward to playing with thie one!
Works as a charm, and I love the instant feedback when changing colors to the light groups within LuxRender! :D
it could have a force update on mat preview, and also it seems kinda sluggish to send back rendered image to blender render viewport. otherwise it's just kickass. cpu+gpu+network is the future for rendering :)
@txrx do you admin a render farm? and do you have luxrender?!
great, shame I'm a poor ATI user :(
GPU rendering, yes please:)
LuxRender uses OpenCL which is supported on ATI cards (probably not on mobile chipsets). Recent drivers should have the OpenCL runtime included. ATI had put a lot of effort in OpenCL ...
@Juan
I am an ati user (and old HD4850) too and I have no problems using the hybrid mode. It uses opencl not nvidia cuda.
Now that's how a splash screen should be done.
@Jon: That's the 0.7 splash. :P Yes, it was awesome, it won by a landslide as I recall. You can still cast a vote for 0.8's splash through the end of the month: http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=5802
Btw, you can force a preview refresh by hitting the sphere/cube/monkey preview buttons.
Sweet! Heading over to Graphicall now. Thanks for the update!
@Martin: If you're referring to the lack of updates after changing material properties, then this is a limitation in Blender. Blender doesn't notify LuxBlend that something has changed. We've been begging for callbacks for quite some time, but it didn't make it into the 2.57 release :(
I´ve tried to render on two different computers, both with ATIs with the GPU+CPU and I've only had black screens as results. Bad luck I guess, anyway thanks for the info about Luxrender not using CUDA.
Do you use windows or linux??
AFAIK you need a recent catalyst driver (with opencl support... 11.3 does work here on windows 7) AND the amd opencl SDK 2.4, otherwise the opencl part of luxrender won't work, only the software inplementation. Be aware that for the moment, GPU accelerated operations are somewhat restricted tho.
J.