LuxRender
LuxRender is no longer in development as the project has been rebooted as LuxCoreRender with a major code rewriting and a lot of compatibility breaking changes. The information here is provided because by default FreeCAD is still shipped (as of 0.19-24276) with the Raytracing Workbench, that officially only supports LuxRender. Anyway also seem to work with LuxCoreRender, so consider giving it a try before using LuxRender.Please remove this warning if the situation changes
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Description
LuxRender is one of the two render engines supported by the Raytracing Workbench. In 2013 the project has been rebooted becoming LuxCoreRender, with a major code rewriting and compatibility breaking changes, thus the LuxRender project has been abandoned. Officially LuxCoreRender is not supported by the Raytracing Workbench, although it might be worth to try.
Installation
Raytracing Workbench
The Raytracing workbench is being superseded by the new Render Workbench, which is intended as its replacement. This must not be confused with the halted and outdated Render project. The Render Workbench can be installed through the Addon Manager. The information here is provided because by default FreeCAD is still shipped (as of 0.19-24276) with the Raytracing Workbench
Stable Version
The latest stable version is LuxRender 1.6 (2017-12-28).
Linux
macOS
Windows
Development Version
There is no development version of LuxRender, as development has been halted in favor of the reboot LuxCoreRender.
Render Workbench
The Render Workbench has dropped support for LuxRender, as it is outdated. It supports instead the modern reboot LuxCoreRender.