New to LUX standalone ect

[BIG Q]

Hi friends
Im a blender user for about three years, not exactly a newbie, but I have many nagging questions
beginning with an ignorant one: How do you submit a file into the LUX standalone? In blender
its done for you, but in the stand alone it requires a LUX file. And I have no idea how to convert
a file to be rendered by LUX that way.
I have 1.7 in my PCs.
My other questions are coming. Thanx so much B Q

[Pilchard123]

First, you might want to get a newer version of LuxRender. THere's a lot more good stuff since v0.7.

After that, it's really just a case of installing the Blender addon and selecting External in the render setting in Blender. It should (if it's installed correctly) just export and run the standalone renderer for you.

[Piita]

The addon Pilchard123 mentioned, Luxblend, can be found inside the Luxrender RC1 archive you got from Luxrender's main page (LuxBlend26dev_***.zip or something similar depending on which version you got.)
Leave the zip file as it is and head over to Blenders preferences->addons and select Install addon... and choose the zip file containing Luxblend, as above. Luxrender then turns up as a choice in the render section of the addons. Enable it, and choose save as default. Luxrender can now be chosen as a renderer in the top bar next to you other renderers.
Then in the render tab choose the path to Luxrender to point to where you extracted the RC1 archive. On the same tab you might want to select export type: external as well.
That should get you the awesome renderer working and integrated into Blender.

I hope I didn't miss anything.

Next step would be to browse through the wiki, and then I expect to see your cool renderings