[Blender]

A new version of LuxRender, the unbiased open source render engine was released a few days ago. And this release presents a lot of new features.

Here is a word from Tim Suess, about the release and new features:

• Hierarchical 2D & 3D procedural material and texture system
  
  
• Native support for all Blender procedural textures
  
  
• Displacement mapping and engine level subdivision
  
  
• Biased and Unbiased integrators
  
  
• Full Spectral rendering
  
  
• New Sampling Infrastructure
  
  
• Distributed network rendering & network transparent API
  
  
• New GUI
  
  
• and much more…