Blender Addon for LuxCoreRender
This addon integrates the LuxCore render engine into Blender. It offers advanced features like accelerated rendering of indirect light and efficient rendering of caustics.
As of 2025, the LuxCoreRender codebase is being reworked to support the latest features and integrate with Blender versions 4.2+.
The current version is a release-candidate, based on LuxCore Python wheels.
This version is not recommended for production use.
In case of questions or support, please open an issue here on GitHub or get in touch on our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/chPGsKV
- Blender versions 4.2LTS and 4.3 are supported by the latest version.
- Support for Blender 4.4+ is experimental and not currently recommended!
- Supported platforms are Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel, MacOS ARM
Old BlendLuxCore releases (non-wheel):
- Blender 2.93 is supported by BlendLuxCore v2.6.
- Blender 2.83-2.92 are supported by BlendLuxCore v2.5.
- Blender 2.83 is supported by BlendLuxCore v2.4.
- Blender 2.80, 2.81 and 2.82 are supported by BlendLuxCore v2.2 and v2.3.
- Blender 2.79 is supported by BlendLuxCore v2.0, v2.1 and v2.2. Supported platforms are Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel
- Find the latest suitable release of BlendLuxCrore on the release page:
https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore/releases - Note: the release labelled "Latest" is a nightly build and may be particularly unstable even compared to alpha or beta release versions!
- From the release assets, download extension
BlendLuxCore-*.zip - Open Blender and follow "Install from disk" procedure (https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preferences/extensions.html)
Beforehand, you may want to uninstall previous version of BlendLuxCore: look in the "Get Extensions" panel.
See also https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/BlendLuxCore_Installation for a more detailed guide.
Note: It is recommended to build the extension using GitHub Actions in a local fork!
Prerequisites: you need cmake and blender installed and in your PATH
Build extension:
- clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore.git - configure:
cmake -S BlendLuxCore -B blc-build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release - build:
cmake --build blc-build
To create a Latest release, use the option -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Latest in the step configure.
The build script then places the collected zip-file in the blc-build subfolder.
Open Blender and follow "Install from disk" procedure (https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preferences/extensions.html)
Beforehand, you may want to uninstall previous version of BlendLuxCore: look in the "Get Extensions" panel.
Homepage: https://luxcorerender.org/
Forums: https://forums.luxcorerender.org/
Wiki: https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/chPGsKV
Gallery: https://luxcorerender.org/gallery/
Example Scenes: https://luxcorerender.org/example-scenes/