LuxCoreRender Release Notes v2.1

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LuxCore

New Features

  • Denoiser
  • Updated to VisualStudio C++ 2017

Alpha0 released

  • Updated to Boost v1.67
  • Updated to OpenImageIO v1.8.11
  • Updated to OpenEXR v2.2.0
  • Updated to Embree v3.2.0

Alpha1 released

Alpha2 released
Alpha3 released

  • Reworked the film of CPU engines to be shared among threads instead of copied, reducing memory usage of CPU engines (see this issue)
  • Added the support for a new Film output: SERIALIZED_FILM
  • Added the support for a new AOV: MATERIAL_ID_COLOR
  • New hair conversion function for the Blender addon, accelerates export and lowers memory usage drastically
  • OpenCL render engines now support Direct Light Sampling Cache

Alpha4 released

Fixed Bugs

  • Fixed few errors in pyluxcoretools

Alpha0 released

  • Fixed infinite lights emission for BIDIRCPU/LIGTHCPU
  • Normal mesh now have a local space like instanced mesh (for animation and procedural textures)

Alpha1 released
Alpha2 released

Alpha3 released
Alpha4 released

  • Periodic saves now update the files at the end of a rendering session

Known Problems

Blender Addon (BlendLuxCore)

New features

Alpha0 released

Alpha1 released

Alpha2 released

  • show a warning if the scene contains a lot of light sources
  • expose direct light type property of triangle meshes
  • new render statistics panel in the image editor toolshelf (LuxCore category), provides in-depth render information with option to compare two render slots
  • Add support for image sequences
  • Improved export process and viewport render updates

Alpha3 released

  • remove min/max limits of world HDRI rotation
  • If pyluxcore import fails, show the most common error source in the error message
  • In world sky light settings, the dropdown for the linked sun light now shows only sun lamps as available options
  • Improved hair export (faster and drastically reduced memory usage), improved UI and descriptions of hair settings
  • Can now define hair UVs without creating vertex colors (this saves memory)
  • Can now interpolate vertex colors over each hair (user can specify root and tip colors)
  • Can now input RGB/HSV values into the constant color texture UI (without having to click on the color property)
  • Node editor: When a new link is about to replace an old link, reconnect the old link to another suitable socket on the same node, if possible
  • Node editor: Submenu for frame and reroute nodes (in node add menu that is brought up with Shift+A)
  • Node editor: Various small node UI improvements (better default width, more compact UI, better readable UI)

Fixed Bugs

Alpha0 released

Alpha1 released

Alpha2 released

Alpha3 released

Known problems