[Blender]

[floo]

 

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:

Just a quick head up to say that there's a new version of LuxRender out!

Its V0.5!

The dev team has been working extremely hard to finalize this release for everyone.

And here it finally is after 5 months of development!

To recap for those people that don't know what LuxRender is:

An unbiased (which now also supports traditional/biased techniques too) render engine that is GPL!

LuxRender supports Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

New features in this release:

 

• 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…
  
  

There are too many new (and old) features for me to list them all here so I'll point you at the release page!

http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=767

And while you're at it, take a quick peek at the LuxRender gallery!

http://www.luxrender.net/gallery/