LuxCore as Python Wheel
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:29 am
Python Wheels are a form of packaging distribution used by Python. It is extremely handy and ubiquitous. LuxCoreRender is now available as Wheel in PyPI repository: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/luxcorerender
This mean it can be installed any Linux (and Windows soon) with just a "sudo pip install luxcorerender":
And then can be used out of the box:
This is very handy for 2 categories of people:
1) Python developers;
2) Anyone using cloud servers (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) and looking for the fastest way to install LuxCore for network rendering. It is available everywhere with just one command.
This mean it can be installed any Linux (and Windows soon) with just a "sudo pip install luxcorerender":
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david@i7-3930k:~/projects/luxcorerender/LinuxCompile$ sudo pip3 install luxcorerender
Collecting luxcorerender
Downloading luxcorerender-2.0a4.dev1-cp34-cp34m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (24.8MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 24.8MB 74kB/s
Installing collected packages: luxcorerender
Successfully installed luxcorerender-2.0a4.dev1
david@i7-3930k:~/projects/luxcorerender/LinuxCompile$ python3
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david@i7-3930k:~/projects/luxcorerender/LinuxCompile$ python3
Python 3.4.3 (default, Nov 28 2017, 16:41:13)
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pyluxcore
>>> pyluxcore.Init()
>>> print(pyluxcore.Version())
2.0alpha4
>>>
1) Python developers;
2) Anyone using cloud servers (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) and looking for the fastest way to install LuxCore for network rendering. It is available everywhere with just one command.
