How many people use/have used it? It seems there aren't any updates to the plugin, has it peaked? Is there more life left in it?
I have tried to use it, and have got a few good images from it, but a lot of content I have requires a lot of material changing, and without knowing what each function does, I am doing things blind and hoping for the best.
I have googled to find information that might help, but it seems scarce on the ground and is writen in such a way that is above my limited ability to understand.
What would be good is if we could all pull our collective information on Luxus to help build up a comprehensive base of information.
I am not saying that the render engine in Carrara sub standard by any means, I have got some great images from it, if you are like me you are always willing to learn new things and luxus/luxrender is a good tool to have in the toolbox, but what good is it if you are unable to use it?
My lights are:
Lux Infinite, gain 1.0, samples 1, color 255, 255, 255
Lux Sky2, gain 0.6, turbidity 2, samples 1
Lux Gamma 1.3
different angle than previous images, otherwise the same
My lights are:
Lux Infinite, gain 1.0, samples 1, color 255, 255, 255
Lux Gamma 1.2
I did not like the blue cast in the previous image from the Lux Sky2 light. I dropped the gain down to default 0.005 but that did not make a difference, so I was wrong before, when I thought it made it a bit brighter at a gain of 0.6.
So I just deleted the Lux Sky2 light to get this image, and dropped the gamma to 1.2.
It's so pretty..., but what are we looking at? 
Its a test for a translucent sculpture made of layers of colored plastic (or glass). I needed to get the mixing of the color as it happens with the real materials, which Carrara's built in renderer cannot handle.
I just drew a few waves in cross section and revolved them so it created a disk, with a rippled surface on the front side and flat on the back side. Then I cut it into a rectangular shape
There are two wave objects, the peaks on one wave object line up with the troughs in the second, so you get bands of color that blend into each other.
looking good, real life is stopping me from doing anything with Luxus, and by real life I mean the good weather we are having :p
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