lux for carrara

1234MATT

hello
nice to see much progress has been made on a lot of products,,,,i recently put carrara pro 8.1.1 back in my big computer and tried to install the lux 4 car plugin,,,and it the first time i thought it wanted a place to save,,,well that not right and now i cant change it,,,i have tryed uninstalling every thing and going back in but nothing works,,,i would really appreciate any ideas on this...thanks :-)

Dartanbeck

Hi,
I believe the ReadMe file has a link to where you get "Luxrender" for free. You need to install Luxrender for the plugin to work. Let me find you a link.

Here you go:
Luxrender Home
Do a search in this forum for Lux. You'll likely find some good advice.

Dartanbeck

Here are a couple that I know about:
* Luxus for Carrara released!
* Luxus: IBL and Background

Also, if you didn't already know, to help get you started PhilW has a Luxus for Carrara Resource Pack. Here's what he says about it:

Luxus for Carrara is an innovative product that allows users of Carrara to render extremely realistic images with the free Luxrender. Many existing Carrara shaders are automatically converted to Lux shaders, but Luxus also allows users to use Lux's native shader definitions. As these are different from those that Carrara users are used to, this can be confusing. Luxrender also works best with its own lighting system.

As I was using Luxus for Carrara, I found that I was developing a library of handy lights and materials that I could quickly apply to any scene - so I thought that I would develop and share this with other Luxus users.

This set comprises area lights, spot lights and bulb lights ready to be dropped into your scene in place of Carrara's equivalent lighting. Some quick background lighting is also included. On top of this, there are 65 seamless Lux-based shaders for common materials that you can just drag and drop onto your objects and surfaces. Particularly for materials such as metals, which do not tend to convert that well, this can be a real time saver and you are assured of quality results each time.

In addition to using these shaders as they are, they can act as great templates for developing your own - simply change the maps in a map-based shader (such as the Rock and Wood shaders) to use your existing image maps. Fabric, Rock and Wood are set up to tile seamlessly if you need a finer texture density, and change the color of lights or create your own metallic shaders with ease by editing these examples.

I have also included a couple of simple background props and left and right reflector screens to add bounce light to your main lighting, without needing to add extra lights to your scene.

I hope this collection saves you time and helps you get the best from your renders using Luxus for Carrara!

rk66

Hi,
or look here:
http://carraracafe.com/luxus-for-carrara-manual-pdf/

rk.

DustRider

You need to set the path to your Lux Render executable (luxrender.exe) so Carrara can find it. The executable will be located in the directory where you installed Lux Render. The attached image shows where in Carrara you need to go to set up the path.

Hope this helps!

1234MATT

that path name,,,thats the ticket,,thanks and the other stuff about the shader i dont understand all of it yet but with some time and practice it should be great...i have a much better card now than i had before and a better computer...i will try this and let you know what happens