Announcing LuxRender 1.5
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LuxRender is a completely free, open source, physically based renderer with many contributors led by Jean-Philippe Grimaldi. LuxRender version 1.5 introduces the following features:
- microkernel architecture for significantly faster rendering,
- biased path tracing engine (including tiled rendering, radiance clamping and many more),
- adaptive rendering,
- Intel Embree-based accelerator,
- Laser light source type
- arbitrary clipping planes,
- pointiness option for materials,
- volume priority system,
- hair strand primitives,
- up to 16 times faster exporting for meshes
- new 3Ds max plugin,
- volumetric emission system.
A full feature list announcement is available here:
http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12363
A video of my 7 favorite LuxRender features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD5YS8-0Rkg
The mentioned scene repository is available here:
http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Show-off_pack
Official website: http://www.luxrender.net/
Forums: http://www.luxrender.net/forum
Gallery: http://www.luxrender.net/gallery
Infographics: https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~zsolnai/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/luxrender-infographics.jpg
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/luxrender/
Scene credits:
Splash Screen - HAL 9000
Floor, bowl and the fish models and textures: ColeHarris, plant models and textures: Bhavin Solanki, HDRI: Maxime Roz
Mr. Snippy (microkernel image) - Simon Wendsche
Cornell Box - Aaron Hill
Interior - Walter Zatta
Simple Morning - Chris Foster
Jade Dragon - Peter Sandbacka and Ian Blew
Laser Bear - J the Ninja
Dojo - Vlad Miller
Heterogeneous medium video - Simon Wendsche
Splash screen/thumbnail design: Felícia Fehér - http://felicia.hu
Music: "Pachabelly" by Huma-Huma.
Also thanks to Hapoofesgeli for his help with some of the images!
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