LuxCoreRender v2.2alpha1

New Features

• Added a new way to blend brute force path tracing and cache in PhotonGI. Cache is now used more often on glossy surfaces
• Introduced a new PhotonGI debug mode to show the mix between brute force and cached paths
• Added the support for automatic PhotonGI indirect cache best radius estimation
• Added the support for automatic PhotonGI indirect cache size by using convergence error estimation
• Front and back material transparency (aka light invisible object)
• Added PhotonGI support for volumes cache entries
• LXS parser now supports instance definitions
• Added the support for new "directx2opengl_normalmap" image map channel selection
• Added new textures: Power, Less Than, Greater Than, Dot Product, Position, Shading Normal

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed a problem with infinite lights and BiDir or PhotonGI
• Fixed a bug when using radiance groups with variance clamping and OpenCL
• Fixed camera invisible objects usage with volumes
• Fixed TASK_EMIT of LightStrategyPower
• Fixed a crash when using RTPATHOCL and editing area lights (issue #173)
• Fixed a bug when using radiance groups with variance clamping and OpenCL

Check https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreRender_Release_Notes for the full list
of release notes.

Note for Windows users: you have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
for Visual Studio 2017.

LuxCoreRender v2.2alpha0

New Features

• PhotonGI cache
• Added ALBEDO AOV
• Added to BiDir the support for shading normal, geometry normal, position, material ID, UV, object ID, material ID color and Albedo AOVs
• Added AVG_SHADING_NORMAL AOV
• Integrated Intel Open Image Denoiser (Oidn)

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed rendering resume feature

Check https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreRender_Release_Notes for the full list
of release notes.

Note for Windows users: you have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
for Visual Studio 2017.

LuxCoreRender v2.1

Check https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreRender_Release_Notes_v2.1 for release notes.

Note for Windows users: you have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.

LuxCoreRender v2.1beta4

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Note for Windows users: you have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.

LuxCoreRender v2.1beta3

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Note for Windows users: you have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.

LuxCoreRender v2.1beta2

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Note for Windows users: you have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.

LuxCoreRender v2.1beta1

Check https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreRender_Release_Notes_v2.1 for release notes.

Note for Windows users: you have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.
Note for Windows users: due to a bug in Embree v3.2.0, you need to install the Intel C++ redistributable too.

LuxCoreRender v2.1alpha4

Check https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreRender_Release_Notes_v2.1 for release notes.

Note for Windows users: you have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.
Note for Windows users: due to a bug in Embree v3.2.0, you need to install the Intel C++ redistributable too.

LuxCoreRender v2.1alpha3

Check https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCoreRender_Release_Notes_v2.1 for release notes.

LuxCoreRender v2.1alpha2

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