appleseed

appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

RenderMan

PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer. It primarily uses the REYES algorithm but is also fully...

Free Personal

Octane Render

Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. What does that mean? It uses the video card in your computer to render...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

NOX Renderer

NOX Renderer is a rendering software based on unbiased methods. The renderer is available as a standalone Windows executable with a plug-in to link it to 3ds Max. ...

Free Open Source Windows

mental ray

mental ray® is a rendering software which generates images of outstanding quality and unsurpassed realism. The software combines the physically correct simulation...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

3Delight

3Delight is a fast, high quality, RenderMan®-compliant renderer designed to produce photo-realistic images in demanding production environments. The renderer was...

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

MiniLight

MiniLight is a minimal global illumination renderer. It is primarily an exercise in simplicity. But that makes it a good base and benchmark (in some sense) for...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Click-VR Visualizer

REAL TIME RENDER VIEWPORT PLUGIN FOR 3DS MAX. Be productive instantly. Click-VR Visualizer is completely integrated in Autodesk 3ds Max. You do not need to waste time...

Commercial Windows Autodesk 3ds Max

Raiseland

Raiseland is a procedural terrain generator that can produce realistic & non-realistic terrains in minutes.

Commercial Windows Linux Steam

Flamingo

Raytracing and Radiosity Rendering for Rhino. Flamingo brings the raytrace and radiosity rendering inside Rhino. This plug-in includes: Rendering: Photometrically...

Commercial Windows Rhinoceros

FPrime Rendering System

Realtime rendering, giving you instant feedback on every step of your work. Interactive texturing, lighting, shadows and radiosity. Even Nodes! The key tool to efficient...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows LightWave

Kray

Kray is the fastest global illumination renderer for LightWave. Kray is a state of the art Global Illumination renderer that allows very fast and accurate rendering...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows LightWave

lucille

lucille is a fast photo-realistic global illumination renderer. lucille acts as a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds max. There are plan to develop plug-ins for other modeling...

Commercial Windows

VirtualRender

VirtualRender is yet another LightWave renderer. The difference from other solutions is that it does not use physical memory for framebuffer allowing to render the...

Commercial Windows LightWave

VistaPro Renderer

Vistapro Renderer has the ability to add oceans, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, clouds, snow, haze, trees, shrubs and buildings. The creation of computer generated, 3D...

Commercial Windows

WorldBuilder

WorldBuilder, a stand-alone scene builder and renderer with unsurpassed compatibly with Max, Maya, LightWave, and SoftImage, is the premier tool for laying out and...

Commercial Windows

L3DT

L3DT is a Windows application for generating terrain maps and textures. It is intended to help game developers and digital artists create vast high-quality 3D worlds.

Freemium Windows