New era for the Luxcore render community. After month of Hard work the luxcore team is proud to share with you the release of Luxcore 2.2 alpha 0.
This big update come with a lot of huge improvement over 2.1.
PhotonGI cache aka PGI : Like Corona Vray or Redshift luxcore have now a secondary light caching engine. Indirect and caustic cache can easily improve the rendering time of some scene of a 5-10 factor. It is really a game changing tool, especially for ArchiViz interior renderings. Note that it also work faster on GPU.
Intel Open Image Denoise Library
Oidn is another new major feature capable to significantly reduce rendering times, both of pre-views and final renderings.
Amazing work lux-team.
When i saw this post yesterday, i thought that by today this thread would have exploded with replies.
Im trying out this alpha as we speak. Great stuff!
It is not like we don’t want to support 3DsMax, it is just we don’t have any developer with the know-how (and the software licenses) to support 3Ds.
In 10 years of Lux, we had, at some point, a very good Maya/3Ds/C4D/etc. integration however there has never been a continuity in the plugin development for commercial software. Each plugins has been abandoned as soon as the single developer with skill set and will to develop the integration was not more interested in the topic.
Blender is different, it is free and available for any OS, it has always been the bare minimum common ground for everyone.
Hmmmm, secondary light cache. I read somewhere on the forum that it is too much work to be implemented in Cycles anytime soon and here you are with Lux. As soon as Luxcore is in 2.8 I am going to test it aswell.
Note that there is currently small brightness difference when using cache, bias isn’t too big but keep in mind it is still alpha version of the software.
I wouldn’t be surprised if in direct comparison luxcore beats even corona, but I cannot test this now.
Luxcore still isn’t as feature complete as cycles for example but development is progressing very fast (this cache solution was probably done in record breaking time :D) I would strongly reccomend to everyone who is doing archviz using blender to give it a try! Also more people testing and giving feedback could accelerate development even more.
I keep track of major features that are being worked on on this trello board if you want to know what is coming to luxcore next:
It all looks great. I’m crying myself to sleep every night, desperately longing for a Blender 2.8 version of LuxCoreRender. I just can’t go back to 2.79 anymore now that I’m finally feeling really comfortable with all the novelties of 2.8.
First and third image looks like from v-ray.
I just can’t go back to 2.79 anymore now that I’m finally feeling really comfortable with all the novelties of 2.8.