The Best 44 POV-Ray Alternatives

  • LuxRender icon

    LuxRender

    LuxRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Mitsuba icon

    Mitsuba

    Physically based renderer. Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques and contains...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • YafaRay icon

    YafaRay

    YafaRay is an open source raytracing render engine. As an open source project, users and developers have free access to the source code and it is free, as in free speech.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Blender

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    Kerkythea

    Powerful, feature-rich and fast standalone raytracing renderer. Exporters from Blender and Google SketchUp are also available. Allows network rendering of images and...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Blender Sketchup

  • Clara.io icon

    Clara.io

    Clara.io is a full-featured cloud-based 3D modeling, animation and rendering software tool that runs in your web browser. With Clara.

    Freemium Web

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    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

  • Sunflow Rendering System icon

    Sunflow Rendering System

    Sunflow is an open source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis. It is written in Java and built around a flexible ray tracing core and an extensible...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • RenderMan icon

    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

  • Indigo Renderer icon

    Indigo Renderer

    Indigo Renderer is an unbiased, physically based and photorealistic renderer which simulates the physics of light to achieve near-perfect image realism. With an advanced...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Picogen icon

    Picogen

    A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Arion icon

    Arion

    Arion is the hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl.

    Commercial Windows

  • Adobe Dimension CC icon

    Adobe Dimension CC

    Create high-quality, photorealistic images with the 3D tool made for graphic designers.

    Commercial

  • Freestyle icon

    Freestyle

    Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes. It is designed as a programmable interface to allow maximum control over the style...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Pixie Renderer icon

    Pixie Renderer

    Pixie is an open source RenderMan renderer for generating photorealistic images. You can compile Pixie on Windows (using Visual Studio 2005), Linux and on OSX (using...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    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

  • Visionaray icon

    Visionaray

    A C++ based, cross platform ray tracing library.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux