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 v2.11.x officially supports Blender versions 4.5 LTS and 5.2 LTS
• Support for other 4.X and non-LTS releases has not been tested and is not guaranteed
• Supported platforms are Windows x86_64, Linux, MacOS Intel, MacOS ARM

Previous BlendLuxCore releases:

• Blender 4.2 LTS is supported by BlendLuxCore v2.10.
• 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
• 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 must uninstall any 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/out 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.

To facilitate the development of BlendLuxCore (and optionally LuxCore), install BlendLuxCore in conjunction with the secondary extension BlendLuxHelper

See the guide on the wiki for full instructions: https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/Developing_and_debugging_BlendLuxCore

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.