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LuxRender

Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.

Monday, April 12th, 2021

Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.

Thursday, July 30th, 2020

Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Open-source physically based renderer gets new denoiser, plus option to pause and resume renders via the Blender plugin.

Monday, January 21st, 2019

Open-source renderer gets faster hybrid and spectral rendering, support for resumable renders.

Monday, May 14th, 2018

Open-source renderer gets new shadowcatcher system, plus variance clamping to reduce artefacts in renders.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

Now officially shipping: Open-source renderer gets major speed boosts, support for AOVs. New 3ds Max exporter to come.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015

OpenCL drivers for OS X 'broken', Apple 'ignoring its creative users', say LuxRender and Blender devs.

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

Free physically based renderer moves to new core architecture; renders 'at least two times faster'.

Monday, February 9th, 2015

Experimental tool lets users drag 3D models into photos and matches alignment and lighting automatically.

Monday, October 20th, 2014

Jason Lewis puts 11 of the leading current workstation graphics cards through a battery of real-world tests.

Thursday, November 7th, 2013

Updated plugin taps the unbiased LuxRender engine to boost realism of renders with minimal tweaking.

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013