What's coming
What we intend to build next, in order. No dates: pre-1.0 Lux ships a thing when it draws its first honest pixel, and the devlog announces it the same day.
Mesh, volume, spline and trail emitters. Turbulence, vortex, curl noise and flocking forces. Trails, metaballs and volume render modes. Millions of particles, all resident on the GPU. The single biggest bet on the board.
Where it stands: Particles, FinallyA full 3D SDF graph: fractals, Voronoi, CSG with clone, mirror and repeat, displacement. Mesh it with marching cubes or raymarch the volume directly. Today SDF lives in 2D; this is its third dimension.
Where it stands: SDFs Without Writing ShadersOne dial that swaps the renderer between Standard, Hybrid, Smart Tracer and Path Tracer with identical materials. Most of the pieces already live inside the GI orchestrator; the dial turns them from a config into a choice.
Screen-space reflections, horizon and ray AO, and screen-space motion blur exist as pin surfaces today. They will draw pixels or they will leave; Lux does not keep nodes that do nothing.
Grid fluids, FLIP and MPM, smoke and fire, cloth, ropes, reaction-diffusion, rigid bodies. The generative-VFX identity, absent on purpose while the substrate hardens underneath it.
Cloner, mesh cloner and volume cloner driven by plain, random, sine, target and turbulence effectors. The spread system was built for exactly this shape of work.
Where it stands: Spreads: The Core of LuxSpline, extrude, revolve, sweep and follow, plus real 3D text. Motion-graphics bread and butter, currently missing from the pantry.
Twist3D ships today. Bend, taper and noise displacement join it, all running on the GPU skinning path.
Offline video render and EXR export with AOVs, for when the output is a film frame instead of a frame budget.
Where it stands: Export: Stills, Sequences, and a Real Output ResolutionSound FFT, BPM detection, NDI, Spout, Syphon, MIDI, OSC, DMX and timecode. Deferred on purpose: visuals, performance and the artist's hands come first. The holes have known shapes and they will be filled.