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can someone tell me how to install lux for blender 4.1. I've changed computers and can't remember exactly how to do it. I thought you just take the .zip file and put it somewhere within blender. I took the latest lux for blender 4.1.1 and tried putting the zip within the scripts/addons folder but ...

the main luxcorerender site won't load for me saying the cert has been invalid for 133 days. Anyone else getting that? Is lux still active? I'd really like the latest if so but because of site issue can't get to download page.

the shadowing under the pillows on the lux image looks weird. Like white, instead of the shadows you see in the Cycles version

how does one create shiny metal text? When I create a text mesh, and apply a metal material, and look at it straight on, it just looks flat, because the surface is flat. I want something like this:

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not exactly like that, but hopefully you know what I mean. This pic was done in AI and I ...

interesting, I'll give it a shot

the material on the ball in kintuX's post looks like flimsy plastic to me

anyway, I added to it the windows and you can see in my image, which is just the viewport with render on. Are you saying the windows were dark because of casting shadows? Not sure where in the pic the windows casting shadows ...

here is the new render with your suggestions about the light settings, altho for the windows I wasn't sure what you meant. It was a cycles material, so I changed it to lux. Just used the glass meterial and used default settings. The image has more noise on the windows and they are darker. Don't ...

thx, i'll give that a try, but how to make shadow color white for glass? here is my node:

here is your scene with a jeep. I think it looks ok