G2

Heten D.

CG Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/1/2016

"LuxRender is one of the best Open Source Unbiased rendering engine."

5/5

What do you like best about LuxRender?

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.

What do you dislike about LuxRender?

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.

Recommendations to others considering LuxRender:

If you're looking for a Free, Open-Source PBR, LuxRender fits your needs perfectly. The fact that it is Open-Source can allow you to customize it to suit your pipelines and contribute back to the project if you have the needed coding skills. As a renderer, it provides a lot of bang for the buck since it's free and can be used on commercial projects and if used correctly the results indistinguishable from real world photographs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is LuxRender solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are doing renders at a fraction of the cost, of available commercial solutions out there like Vray, Arnold with comparable results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.