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The other part of the rant is that I can't believe how many people seem to think that the author provided them with this great renderer, when all he did was provide transport to the renderer.  If 

Well, I guess that's because the first threads he showed off his Lux renders, from his wording he gave the impression that he coded a new render engine for Studio.
I think it's kind of risky to release something that relies on another component that has a version number smaller 1.0 anyway.