Luxrays Blender Render package for Archlinux

("Luxrays" is the name that has been chosen for the part of the Luxrender dedicated to accelerating the ray interesection process by GPU's, from now on I will refer to SmallLuxGPU as Luxrays.)


Yesterday after watching this Luxrays video tutorial I decided that I wanted to give it a whirl myself, but there was no Luxrays package for Archlinux ...so today I made one.

Here is the package if you want to try it yourself: Luxrays for Archlinux

Unless you already know how to use Luxrays you will need to follow this guide to get the settings right

Here is a screenshot of a simple scene that I made after getting everything working.

The hardest part about making the package was just cloning the Luxrays source repository.

I tried for ...hours... and kept getting time out errors half way through the download.

Eventually I managed to get the source from a private repo, but the thought of going to the trouble of making a package only to have everyone complain to me when the download fails half way through was less than appealing.

So I did us all a favor! I made us a mirror Luxrays mercurial repository hosted on googlecode.com

Here is the home page.

Now to download the Luxrays source just do:

    hg clone https://luxrays.googlecode.com/hg/ luxrays


The source at googlecode will be updated from the main repo every 24 hours via cron job. 


But please do not contact me for commit rights, the googlecode repository is only a mirror, all commits must continue to go to the main Luxrays repository.


But feel free to clone the googlecode repository as much as you like. :)


In fact, I suggest that if you have to clone the repository at all that you use the googlecode site instead of the main repository, it is a lot faster, more reliable, and costs nothing for hosting fees.


Now lets get rendering!


I still plan to write a Blender post on Monday, maybe if I have time it will be about Luxrays but no promises.