LuxBlend25: Download, installation instructions, issues

[Abel]

I'm stuck on this step. I cant find the "<blender scripts>/addons/" folder in my Blender installation

Sorry about the confusion, I added some clarification to that page now. On Windows 7, the folder should be in a place that looks like this:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts

Could you check if that folder exists and report back? The [username] part has to be replaced with your own user name.

[Zurg]

I'm stuck on this step. I cant find the "<blender scripts>/addons/" folder in my Blender installation

Sorry about the confusion, I added some clarification to that page now. On Windows 7, the folder should be in a place that looks like this:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts

Could you check if that folder exists and report back? The [username] part has to be replaced with your own user name.

Thanks Abel,

Yes, there is a folder but it does not have the name exactly as you described. Also, it is a hidden folder by default. The folder on my Win764bit machine is...

C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.57\scripts

You may want to also tell people that they need to enable viewing of hidden files/folders otherwise they will not see this folder by default.

[Abel]

You may want to also tell people that they need to enable viewing of hidden files/folders otherwise they will not see this folder by default.

Ok, done, thanks for the feedback! Is everything working for you now?

[dougal2]

There is a shortcut to get to the C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming location - type %appdata% in the location bar, or into the start->run menu

[Zurg]

Abel,
Thanks for your help. Step 2 is aslo confusing. Where do you get the pulux.pdy file from? I dont have it anywhere on my Win764 machine.

2. Get Pylux
Pylux is a binary add-on for LuxBlend25 which will allow you to do fully integrated rendering inside Blender.

On Windows the file is called pylux.pyd and may come in a folder called "python3", on Linux and Mac OS X it's called pylux.so. If you have a copy, you can copy the pylux file into the folder <blender scripts>/addons/luxrender/

[Lord Crc]

Thanks for your help. Step 2 is aslo confusing. Where do you get the pulux.pdy file from? I dont have it anywhere on my Win764 machine.

If you've downloaded 0.8RC3 (or one of my weekly builds) it'll be in the PyLux folder inside the folder you extracted from the archive, use the Python3 version. Thus if you grabbed the OpenCL archive you'll find it inside the "LuxRender_64_OpenCL\PyLux\Python3" folder.

[Zurg]

Here is a minor mistake in the instructions.

don't chose should say don't change

Note that some of the panels (such as the dimensions and output panels) don't chose as they contain settings that are shared between render engines.

[Zurg]

Thanks for your help. Step 2 is aslo confusing. Where do you get the pulux.pdy file from? I dont have it anywhere on my Win764 machine.

If you've downloaded 0.8RC3 (or one of my weekly builds) it'll be in the PyLux folder inside the folder you extracted from the archive, use the Python3 version. Thus if you grabbed the OpenCL archive you'll find it inside the "LuxRender_64_OpenCL\PyLux\Python3" folder.

OK, I see now. Thanks. If you want the install instructions to be really complete, it might be worth making a Step 0 telling the person to download the LuxRender program itself first. Something like this...

Step 0 :
1) Download the appropriate version of LuxRender for your operating system and render hardware (CPU vs. GPU) at this link: http://www.luxrender.net/en_GB/standalone.
2) After downloading LuxRender, uncompress it and move all of the files to a folder your choice. On a windows machine that would typically be a folder like C:\LuxRender or something similar. Note: this is the folder that you will point to in the LuxRender Addon interface inside of your 3D software package.

[Abel]

it might be worth making a Step 0

Ok, that won't hurt, done! I also fixed the typo you mentioned.

If you find any more typos, feel free to edit them directly on the wiki.

[2Late]

Ran into problems after upgrading to 64bit win7 and using latest-and-greatest blender from svn and same is for luxrender/luxblend25

1. I cannot set luxrender.exe path anywhere
2. When running internal render with luxrender, it tries to create file to c:\ and by default, it's access denied.