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This addon integrates the LuxCore render engine into Blender. It offers advanced features like accelerated rendering of indirect light and efficient rendering of caustics.
This is a special, experimental version of the add-on, based on LuxCore Python wheels. It may not be suitable for production use.
- Blender 4.2 is supported for Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel, MacOS ARM
- Find latest release of BlendLuxCore Wheels (https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore/releases). Caveat: do not get confused with plain BlendLuxCore.
- 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 may want to uninstall previous version of BlendLuxCore: look in "Get Extensions" panel.
Prerequisites: you need cmake and blender installed and in your PATH
Build extension:
- clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore.git --branch for_blender_4.2_wheels - configure:
cmake -S BlendLuxCore -B blc-build - build:
cmake --build blc-build
The extension should be in blc-build 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: see in "Get Extensions" panel.