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.
- 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
- 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.
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 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release - build:
cmake --build blc-build
To create a Latest release, use the option -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=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.
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.