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Hi all!
My OS is Windows 10 Home, with 8 GB RAM.

I just downloaded LuxCoreRender v2.6, to render models generated by Wings3d, and copied all files under C:\Program Files.
Running luxcoreui.exe the GUI opens and seems ok.

The questions are:

• Is it possible for LuxCoreRender v2.6 to open file exported by Wings3D (such as .obj, .3ds or other)?
• Does version v2.10 exists only as plug-in for Blender or can also be used alone, to open other model files (such as .obj, .3ds or other)?

Thank you in advance!

Hello,

To answer you second question first: Luxcore v2.10 also exists as standalone, i.e. luxcoreconsole and luxoreui. These can be found in the "Samples" release: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/LuxCor ... es-v2.10.1

However, to answer your first question: luxcoreui is not a CAD or shading software, but rather a rendering tool for complete scenes.

This means you can not directly import a .obj file, but you must also provide a scene file (.scn) and a config file (.cfg) that contain descriptions of materials assigned to objects, rendering settings, etc.

If you are really interested, you can read the SDL (Scene Description Language) documentation:
https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCore_ ... nual_v2.11
But to quote from there:

[... ]normal end-users should not need to edit cfg/scn files by hand.

Based on your message, I would think the best option is to use Blender + BlendLuxCore. Blender can import .obj files and then you can do the shading with a proper user interface.