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diff --git a/graphics/luxrender/README b/graphics/luxrender/README index cc6d31e58a..f6edc0cd74 100644 --- a/graphics/luxrender/README +++ b/graphics/luxrender/README @@ -1,4 +1,43 @@ +LuxRender +========= + 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. +Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light according +to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality. +It is fully-featured, with a command line application as well as a GUI, widespread +render farm support, instancing, volumetrics, motion blur, and more. + +This package supports 64-bit systems only, because it installs the pre-compiled LuxRender +package. It is possible to install LuxRender on 32-bit system, but it requires building from source. + + +Optional Depencencies: +------------ +opencl-headers +cudatoolkit +nvidia-driver + +Install Options: +---------------- +To install without OpenCL support, launch this script like this: + +$ OPENCL=no ./luxrender.SlackBuild + +Blender Plugin +-------------- +By default, this SlackBuild: +1. Attempts to auto-detect where your Blender install is by grepping /var/log/packages +2. Attempts to install the Blender plugin to that location + +If you do not want it to attempt to do this, do: + +$ BLENDER=no ./luxrender.SlackBuild + +The Blender plugin will be copied to /usr/share/luxrender-VERSION + +If you do have Blender, but in a different path than the SlackBuild.org path,, or not +listed in /var/log/packages for some reason, then you can hardcode the path: + +$ BLENDER=/path/to/blender/scripts ./luxrender.SlackBuild + +IMPORTANT: Point to your Blender **scripts** directory. |