LuxRender Reviews & Product Details

LuxCoreRender, (formerly known as LuxRender), is a physically based, unbiased rendering engine. It is free, and its site claims it will ever be.

This standalone render engine could be used with different 3d programs.

A Blender (https://www.blender.org) add on makes it immediately available from within Blender.

This makes LuxCore Render an interesting alternative render engine for Mac users, since it could fill the gap left by Cycles (the most accurate Blender internal rendering engine) which is, as for now, incapable of GPU rendering on Macs.

Being based on OpenCL, LuxCoreRender can take advantage of GPU rendering , and could be also set up to use Cycles materials.

Did I mention it's free? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LuxRender used to have exporters for a wider number of 3D applications than LuxCoreRender.

But things could change in the future.

One has also to choose carefully the version of LuxCoreRender compatible with the installed Blender version (see LuxCoreRender site and Readme.md for details). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LuxRender is available for free, it is Open Source and the fact that it is Physically Based, It's ability to use OpenCL to speed up rendering by using all the available OpenCL compatible hardware and even over the network, is great. Due to its PBR nature the end results have a very photographic look. The development of luxCore looks very promising and has significant speed improvements over the past releases. Several integration plugins are available for LuxRender, E.g. Blender, 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4d and Sketchup to name a few. My experience has been using it with blender and the integration is flawless and allows for a 1 click cycles scene convert. The 1.6 release with collapsible menu saves a lot of screen real estate. The new biased path rendering mode is very fast with OpenCL. and the new Halt Conditions menu allows for autostopping a render at an estimated noise level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of this writing LuxCore does not support network Rendering. Too many options and lack of a solid documentation , maybe intimidating for a new user. Cannot be deployed in an environment where a lot of outsourced work happens since its not an industry standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.