Overview of LuxBlend Updates

by Jonathan Williamson

In this quick Blender 2.5 video tutorial we go over some of the recent changes to the LuxRender exporter for Blender 2.5; LuxBlend. Since our previous tutorials covering this topic several major features have been added, most importantly the ability to save and load materials.

Note: many of these features are still under development and so expect changes and/or instability

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23 Responses to “Overview of LuxBlend Updates”
  1. Tiago Nunes
    Posts: 46

    Fantastic, thanks for the heads-up! I’d been looking forward to material load/save with 0.8, this really was a must-have.

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     Apr 7, 2011 at 1:39 am
    • greg
      Posts: 115

      I just spent a couple of hours last weekend trying to get luxrender going on blender 2.57, on my fresh ubuntu linux istall, to no avail.
      how timely that you enlighten me as to the existence of luxrender 0.8, and exactly what i did wrong, thanks maybe i can get it to work now!

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       Apr 7, 2011 at 4:03 am
  2. Martin Lindelöf
    Posts: 3

    Nice update on the new luxblend features. it’s really starting to shape up. All we need now is to push blender too 2.6! and stabilize all this ^^

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     Apr 7, 2011 at 4:03 am
  3. ---------------
    Posts: 59

    could you plz do a tutorial on smalluxrender I played with it but it doesn’t want to work :) and thaks

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     Apr 7, 2011 at 9:05 am
  4. Richard Burns
    Posts: 33

    does it still have trouble supporting radeon 4850s for gpu rendering, small luxgpu hasn’t as many problems but luxrender never worked with it.

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     Apr 7, 2011 at 10:49 am
  5. Urenze
    Posts: 15

    Hi!

    When I tried to use Luxrender 7 on a model with UV textures, the seams were quite visible. I’ve read that this was due to Luxrender using a different subsurface algorithm than the one used by Blender. Do you know if this was true, and if true, whether Luxrender 8 has addressed this problem?

    Thanks!
    Urenze

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     Apr 7, 2011 at 12:30 pm
    • Tim Rodgers
      Posts: 8

      I’m not up on what’s official by any means, but my own testing on this yesterday would lead me to think it has not been addressed yet, as all my UV mapping went a bit out of whack once in luxrender.

      Thanks for the really fast update in tutorials Johnathan! It came one day late for me, but I’m impressed again by what your doing over here.

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       Apr 7, 2011 at 1:07 pm
      • Urenze
        Posts: 15

        That´s sad to hear, for I tried Blender Internal, Octane and Luxrender, and the best render output (if you disregard the seams) were produced by the latter.

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         Apr 7, 2011 at 1:49 pm
    • Asbjørn
      Posts: 5

      It’s currently an issue, however it seems to be a regression (ie it was fixed but now broken again). Dougal is working on it so hopefully should be fixed shortly.

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       Apr 7, 2011 at 1:56 pm
      • Asbjørn
        Posts: 5

        Just a quick update, the UV seam issue has been resolved and is in the repository.

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        5.2.1
         Apr 8, 2011 at 11:59 pm
  6. Taylor Hall
    Posts: 4

    I can’t get it to work… Once I got it working, but now its just not doing it. I have placed the script in the addon folder, it appears in the preferences, I check it, but that as far as I get. I can’t change the render engine from Blender to LuxRender. I have tried 0.8.0 RC2 and it doesn’t let me enable it in the preferences. So I tried RC1, and it lets me enable it… but that’s it… Im a Snow Leopard user on a MacBook… help would be great!

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     Apr 7, 2011 at 8:12 pm
  7. Dominik Kirylo
    Posts: 38

    What happened? the video doesn’t work.

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     Apr 8, 2011 at 6:00 am
  8. alexds
    Posts: 39

    video doesn’t work :|

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     Apr 8, 2011 at 7:44 am
  9. dougal2
    Posts: 8

    Hi,

    Thanks for helping with awareness by publishing this video – however I would like to add a HUGE caveat that the Material Load/Save and LRMDB integration features are not completely finished yet!

    I know for a fact that there are still a few issues with these features, and that I may still need to make compatibility-breaking or otherwise fundamental changes to the material file formats in order to fully support complete recall of all settings.

    In future, it might be better if you make tutorials and documentation only for versions of the code/plugins which are official releases, so that we can provide at least some confidence that the code will continue to operate as described in your videos.

    By grabbing and documenting the code from our hg/bitbucket repos, you may well be asking for trouble by showing users how to use features that are either not complete, are still in heavy development, subject to massive changes and/or otherwise just simply broken.

    Don’t get me wrong though, I really appreciate the time you have taken to show the world about our software – I just wanted to point out to anyone who may try to use this code that the final stable versions may work or look different.

    Cheers,
    Doug.

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     Apr 8, 2011 at 9:31 am
  10. Max
    Posts: 1

    Is this in Blender 2.57? or 2.56

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     Apr 8, 2011 at 7:57 pm
  11. Daniel
    Posts: 1

    Guys, how so I make a “clay” render with this recent version of lux??? Very need it!

    Thanks!

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     Apr 12, 2011 at 11:29 am
  12. Isakjust
    Posts: 5

    Does this version works with blender 2.57 because i cant get it to work, i just get an black image inside blender after 4-7 seconds and luxrender never launches even though i typed in the luxrender catalog!

    Kind regards Isak

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     Apr 16, 2011 at 11:33 am
  13. Ron Boygott
    Posts: 105

    I can’t seem to get LR into user preferences. I even downloaded the startup .blend file which is supposed to have LR addon listed, also 2.57 does not have an addon file, if it does I can’t find it. My 2.56 has addon files,plugin ect. this is very strange. Any one knows how I can install Lux Render on 2.7 let me know. Thank You

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     Apr 17, 2011 at 6:14 pm
    • Ron Boygott
      Posts: 105

      I also downloaded Lux blend 0.8 and copied the file into my 2.57 python file, but that did’nt help either. Please excuse me I’m a noobe at this with no scripting experiance.

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       Apr 17, 2011 at 6:23 pm
      • MSC
        Posts: 1

        I gave up on trying to install Lurender manually. Even with very close attention to the tutorials on this site (multiple attempts) it simply would not show up in User Preferences/Addons.

        Now I just download builds from Graphicall that already have Lurender incoroporated in the build. It works as advertised then.

        Now if I could just get the Hybrid CPU/GPU rendering to work…

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         May 2, 2011 at 12:58 pm
  14. Marcel
    Posts: 2

    I was having problems watching this too. But it’s available directly on vimeo at http://vimeo.com/22061630

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     Apr 21, 2011 at 8:40 am
  15. ptelephant
    Posts: 1

    I installed this version of Luxrender and it’s showing up in the addons section, but I can’t enable it. Any tips?

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     Nov 12, 2012 at 2:28 am

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