so im trying to install luxrender and im following the tutorial on blender cookie on how to do that. i got everything except for the last step which is to take the luxrender folder and put it into the scripts folder in blender. the problem is that i cant find the scripts folder. im in the blender folder but its just not there.
im using a pc, windows 7, and blender 2.55
can anyone help?
You’re probably looking in the wrong place. The folder should be placed in C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.55\scripts\addons
i cant find my appdata folder. i can only get as far as the username.
C:\Users<username>\ and then there is no appdata.
Could it be somewhere else?
No, it’s just hidden by default. Go to Start>Control Panel>Folder Options>View>Show hidden files
Thanks! it finally worked.
or so i thought. now i can find it in blender, but it doesn’t work! all that happens when i press render is the screen is black. whats going on?
Tick the checkbox that says ‘run renderer’, otherwise your render will be black (if it successfully exported the console should show the list of meshes that were exported)
i tried that but it still isnt working
Also, check your lamps, point won’t produce optimal results in Luxrender because it’s physically inaccurate, use an arealight, sunlight, hemilight, or meshlight, and check the lamp power and make sure it’s a decent amount.
Also, the integrator may be the reason you’re not getting anything, avoid using distributed path unless you really know how sampling works and focus on using Bidirectional lighting with Metropolis sampling (as it’s the easiest to use), photon mapping will also work, but you need a recent build as it’s kind-of broken in older builds, though you need to take care to have the photons big enough and shoot enough of them as well as having enough final gather samples.
Also take care to have at least 5 bounces for both eye rays and light rays, and make sure the file-path that is set goes to the folder that the Luxrender app. is in and not the .exe itself.
man! first of all thanks for all the suggestions. i will keep those in mind in the future.
but its still not working. im starting to think i might of not installed it correctly but im almost positive i did it correctly
Have you watched this tutorial?
It explains how to install and render a basic scene. It might help you.
yes i did but it still isnt working. I kinda gave up and just went to graphicall and downloaded a build with luxrender in it. It works now.
Thanks for all the help