LuxRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality.
LuxRender has exporters available for the 3D Applications like – Blender, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Maxon Cinema 4D, SoftImage XSI. Exporters are plug-ins for 3D Applications which translate the scene into a format that can be read and rendered by LuxRender.
Main Features:
- Physically based rendering
- Spectral rendering
- Optimised rendering methods
- Network rendering
- Instances
- Materials & Textures
- Subdivision and displacement
- Lighting
- Cameras
- Motion blur, Depth of field and Lens effects
- Light groups
- Tonemapping
- Image denoising
- Fleximage (virtual film)
- Exporters
- Cross platform
LuxRender is licensed under the GPL V3 and is free software – both for personal and commercial use. The program runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Latest version available for download is LuxRender 0.7