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Introduction

• Introduction to LuxRender
• Goals and Philosophy
• Features
• New Features in Version 0.8
• Available exporters
• Gallery
• Screenshots
• Benchmarks
• Authors
• How to get involved

Download

• Download
• License
• External resources

Installation instructions

• Installing LuxRender and LuxBlend 2.49 on Windows or Linux
• Installing LuxRender and exporters on OS X
• LuxBlend 2.5 installation instructions

Help

• Getting Help - Forum and IRC
• Frequently Asked Questions

Videos

• Vimeo group

Materials Database

• Materials Database Submission Guidelines

LuxRender Manual

• Interface
• Lighting
• Cameras
• Materials
• Textures
• Bump, Displacement, and Normal maps
• Volumes
• Portals
• Render Settings
• Tone Mapping
• Light Groups
• Motion Blur
• Lens Effects
• Network Rendering
• Animation Rendering
• GPU Acceleration
• Luxconsole
• LuxMerger
• LuxMark, LuxMark Benchmark Results
• New User Tips and Tricks
• Common Error Messages

• LuxRender Tutorials
  • Creating a Pearl Material
  • Creating a Gold Material
  • Creating a Soap Material (LuxRender 0.7.1)
  • Creating Beautiful Caustics
  • Using Light groups and basic animation
  • Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) To Add Rendering Capacity
  • video tutorial: Creating a Water Glass
  • Border Rendering: Rendering a portion of your image
  • video tutorial: Making a Sunlit Room
  • HDR tone mapping with Luminance/qtpfsgui

Exporter Manuals

• 3dsMax:
  • LuxMax Manual
• Blender 2.49
  • Overview/Getting Started
  • Material
  • Camera and Environment
  • Render settings
  • Output
  • System
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
• Blender 2.5:
  • LuxBlend25 Manual
  • LuxBlend25 Render Settings
  • LuxBlend25 Material Settings
• Cinema 4D:
  • LuxC4D Manual
• DAZ Studio:
  • Reality exporter overview
  • Reality exporter pdf manual
  • Reality exporter wiki
  • LuxRenderDS exporter documentation
• Maya:
  • LuxMaya Overview
  • LuxMaya Installation
  • LuxMaya Getting started
  • LuxMaya Manual
• SketchUp:
  • SU2Lux manual
• Softimage XSI:
  • LuXSI Manual

Exporter Tutorials

• Blender 2.49
  • LuxBlend tutorial: your first scene
  • LuxBlend tutorial: creating a simple interior scene
  • LuxBlend tutorial: image textures and mix materials
  • LuxBlend tutorial: displacement mapping
  • LuxBlend tutorial: procedural textures
  • video tutorial: Rendering MOI3D Models in Blender and LuxRender
  • video tutorial: How to use light groups
  • video tutorial: glass and fluid studio setup (LuxRender 0.6/0.7 dev versions)
• Blender 2.5
  • LuxBlend25 tutorial: Calibrating HDR environments

Developer documentation

Developers

• Getting the Source & Building
  • getting the source using Mercurial
  • Building on Linux
  • Building on Ubuntu 10.10
  • Building Luxrays on Ubuntu
  • Building on OSX
  • Building on Windows
• Source code guide
  • Lux Logging System
• Coding Style Conventions
• Patch Submission
• Test Scenes
• Scene file format (Pre-0.8)
• Scene file format 0.8
• Scene file format 0.9 (WIP, will be finished before 0.9 final release)
• API Usage example
• OpenCL support
• LuxFire
• LuxRays overview
• LuxRays API
• Exporters
  • Blender: LuxBlend LuxBlend25_Architecture Debug LuxBlend25 with Eclipse
  • SketchUp: SU2Lux
  • Cinema 4D: LuxC4D
  • LuxMaya: LuxMaya
  • Softimage XSI: LuXSI
• Papers
• Bug Tracker

Documentation Writers

• Wiki HowTo & Guidelines
• Documentation ToDo
• 0.9 Draft Pad
• Templates and Files
• Sandbox
• MediaWiki FAQ