Luxrender v1.5 released

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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.

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    LuxRender v1.5 Release

    by jeanphi ยป Wed Sep 02, 2015 2:48 am


    The final release of the 1.5 version of LuxRender has been delayed a bit more than expected because of some annoying bugs found during final testing, but here it is and we hope that you'll enjoy using it and make our jaws drop with new renderings.
    As for v1.4, LuxRender itself has not seen much changes but the new LuxCore rendering core has gained a lot of features and nearly matches classic LuxRender. We won't stop there though and lots of exciting stuff is already pending for v1.6.
    You can get a visual outlook of the new features in the wiki: major speed improvements, volume precedence, new materials and textures, volume emission, strands, better integration in Blender and 3DSMax to name just a few.
    Paolo, Reality plugin author, has experimented more than 10x speed improvements with the new rendering modes:

    If you find any issue please report them in the forum or in our bug tracker. Note that OpenCL rendering modes can sometimes produce slightl different outputs than CPU rendering modes, most notably when using glossytranslucent material. The OpenCL compilation of the materials can sometimes take several minutes at the beginning of the rendering leaving you with a black render until the compilation is over. Those issues are investigated and we hope to be able to provide improvements in the next release.

    Thanks to all developers for their hard work and to the users for their feedback throughout the development process.

    Please consider making a donation if you like our work and want to help us continue to improve LuxRender.

    You can download packaged builds from our download area, or get the source from our mercurial repositories:
    LuxCore: http://src.luxrender.net/luxrays/commit ... ender_v1.5
    LuxRender: http://src.luxrender.net/lux/commits/tag/v15
    LuxBlend: http://src.luxrender.net/luxblend25/commits/tag/v15

    Changes since v1.5RC1:

    LuxCore:

    bumpmapping fix with instanced meshes
    biaspath incorrect path length handling fix
    huge memory leak fix
    optimize scene setup for speed and robustness
    nVidia suggested accelerations for OpenCL code (benefits all platforms)
    new opencl.kernel.options parameters to tweak OpenCL compilation options
    new .transform property for shapes and meshes
    Blender mesh import fix
    read the spotlight color from scene definition
    improve biaspath render statistics
    add radiance group export and saving support to all integrators
    improve mix material performance
    rough materials fix when using extreme roughness values
    Filtering fix causing overly blurry renders with path tracing and bidirectional path tracing
    normalmapping and bumpmapping fix when using complex texture trees


    LuxRender:

    nested instanced area lights fix
    some GUI tweaks
    support for blackbody texture with LuxCore renderer
    support for normalmap with LuxCore renderer


    LuxBlend:

    halt conditions rework and fix
    simplified scene settings, engine configurations, ...
    make the cloud texture available
    particle export fix
    viewport render crash fix
    AOV configuration fix
    instanced objects with armatures fix
    object naming fix
    material visibility fix
    new update button to get the latest LuxBlend version from the repository
    light samples fix
    use shape transforms instead of instances when possible for better performance
    transforms export fix
    band and other textures export fix
    improved render statistics
    proxy improvements
    material preview improvements
    anisotropic roughness fix
    improved volume export


    You'll find below the other changes since v1.4.

    LuxCore new features since v1.4:

    OpenCL micro kernels for improved performance and reduced pressure on OpenCL compilers
    OpenCL tweaks suggested by nVidia to improve performance (general commonly accepted tweaks not specific to nVidia hardware)
    new biased path render engine with more tuning knobs to trade between render speed and render accuracy
    integration of Intel Embree technology for faster triangle intersection
    vertex color interpolation for area lights
    adaptive tile rendering with automatic stop condition
    auto-linear tonemapping support
    new irradiance pass with optional contour lines for lighting studies
    accelerated Blender mesh convertion
    add camera response support, metal2 fresnel parameter, blender procedurals in the built-in lxs parser
    improved OpenCL Sobol sampler
    new substract, blackbody, irregulardata, lampspectrum, fresnel (color, luxpop, sopra, preset), pointiness textures
    image storage improvement to reduce memory pressure with large textures
    new glossycoating material
    new orthogonal camera
    new volumetric cloud texture to simulate realistic clouds in the sky
    add various interpolation modes to the band texture
    new strand shape support
    fixes to mix material
    fixes to volumes
    fixes to glass materials
    fixes to lights handling
    fixes to motion blur in OpenCL
    remove hybrid CPU/GPU render engines


    LuxRender new features since v1.4:

    add new LuxCore features to the luxcore render engine
    easier build on OSX and Windows
    fix imagemap texture alignment (1 pixel offset in some circumstances)


    LuxBlend new features since v1.4 (LuxCore API unless otherwise specified):

    proxy support
    alpha transparency support
    improved real time material preview (correct mix material, volumes, ... support)
    light groups support
    support for camera clipping planes
    add support for hitpoint data textures
    lots of improvements to the real time scene preview and editing
    lots of UI improvements for consistency and robustness (a huge refactor of the code has been done for that)
    improved imagemap handling
    improved volumes texturing
    improved motion blur support
    add color ramps support
    add particles motion blur support
    fix visibility handling
    fix camera shift support
    add support for new LuxCore features (textures, materials, cameras, volumes, ...)
    fix border rendering
    add support for volume emission

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    Jeanphi

    Home of LUXrender: http://www.luxrender.net/en_GB/index

    Wiki: whats new in v 1.5 :
    http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/New_in_1-5#Volume_Priority

    The forum for all your question and support
    http://www.luxrender.net/forum/

    Show off pack: http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Show-off_pack

    The gallery
    http://www.luxrender.net/forum/gallery2.php
     
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