Version 1.6 of open-source unbiased renderer LuxRender was released recently.  Developers promise significant improvements, such as shadow catcher objects, sky ground color, new image pipeline, better nodes support in Blender and better integration of 3dsMax plugin.

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For more information on new features refer to:  www.luxrender.net/wiki/New_in_1-6

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