I have been working not on the materials but on the program itself.

Since I am new to LuxRender, I will be very much at the mercy of the program, not the other way around. I need to be sure that I can experiment with it really effectively.

This is why I'm working so hard, not on the materials, but on the exporter. I am at the point where I can change settings, click one button, and see results in less than 5 seconds. I had to go buy a $1200 computer to get to that point, but I'm there.

I will be releasing this code shortly for others, but I'm still not done with experimental usability. I'm going to want to be able to move a slider and see in near real time an updated material preview, but not just with a sphere. With any shape I want. I'm not very far away from that point.

Once I have the infrastructure and UI the way I want, you will see me crank out Lux materials like nobody has ever done before.

Don't forget that up to now everybody has made LuxRender materials by hand, via the LuxBlend UI. I, on the other hand, have implemented luxmatic, which lets me generate Lux materials in great quantities via scripting. I can produce 100 parametric variations in a single button click and then render them all in one preview. In a month or two, nobody on earth will have produced and tested more Lux materials than I.

I will probably let the DS users buy some of them. giggle

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