Arion Alternatives

Arion is described as 'The hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It inherits all our expertise in light simulation and makes it run on steroids, thanks to our very unique approach to massive CPU+GPU+LAN computation' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Arion for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Autodesk 3ds Max and Sketchup apps. The best Arion alternative is Adobe Dimension. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try LuxCoreRender or POV-Ray. Other great apps like Arion are appleseed, Kerkythea, Sunflow Rendering System and Keyshot.

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Arion is the hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It inherits all our...

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Arion alternatives page was last updated Aug 13, 2017
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  1. Adobe Dimension icon
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    Versatile 3D design tool combining asset compositing and photorealistic rendering with real-time previews. Access Adobe Stock seamlessly and enhance with Photoshop for practical workflows.

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud

    Adobe Dimension Features

    1.  Grid layout
    2.  HD-Rendering
    3.  3D design

    Adobe Dimension VS Arion

     
    • Adobe Dimension is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Arion.

    • Adobe Dimension is the most popular commercial alternative to Arion.

    • Adobe Dimension is Paid and ProprietaryArion is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. LuxCoreRender icon
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    LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxCoreRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    LuxCoreRender Features

    1.  Rendering
    2.  Ray Tracing

    LuxCoreRender VS Arion

     
    • LuxCoreRender is the most popular Linux alternative to Arion.

    • LuxCoreRender is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Arion.

    • LuxCoreRender is Free and Open SourceArion is Paid and Proprietary
  3. POV-Ray icon
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    The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.

    43 POV-Ray alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Top POV-Ray Features

    1.  Physically-Based Rendering
    2.  Volumetric Media (Absorb/Emit/Scatter)
    3.  Untesselated geometry
    4.  Chromatic dispersion
    5.  Global Illumination (Radiosity)
    6.  Depth of Field
    7.  Dielectric materials
    8.  Pause Render process
    9.  Uv mapping
    10.  Render baking (Mesh Camera)
    11.  Final Gathering

    POV-Ray VS Arion

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    appleseed Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Rendering
    3.  Ray Tracing

    appleseed VS Arion

     
  5. Kerkythea icon
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    Powerful, feature-rich and fast standalone raytracing renderer.

    Exporters from Blender and Google SketchUp are also available. Allows network rendering of images and animation

    Supported Features*

    • Bump Mapping
    • Normal Mapping
    • Clip Mapping
    • Bevel Mapping (an.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Sketchup
    • Blender

    Kerkythea Features

    1.  Ray Tracing
    2.  Rendering

    Kerkythea VS Arion

     
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    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 object-oriented design. It was created as a framework for experimenting with global illumination algorithms and...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Sunflow Rendering System Features

    1.  Rendering
    2.  Ray Tracing

    Sunflow Rendering System VS Arion

     
  7. Keyshot icon
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    KeyShot is an interactive raytracing and global illumination program developed by Luxion for both PC and Mac that breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models.

    51 Keyshot alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Keyshot Features

    1.  HDR Support
    2.  Rendering

    Keyshot VS Arion

     
  8. Mitsuba icon
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    Mitsuba is a research-oriented rendering system for forward and inverse light transport simulation. It consists of a core library and a set of plugins that implement functionality ranging from materials and light sources to complete rendering algorithms.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • CH flagSwitzerland

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Mitsuba Features

    1.  Rendering

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    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 XCode or unix style configure script).

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Pixie Renderer Features

    1.  Ray Tracing
    2.  Rendering

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  10. YafaRay icon
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    YafaRay is a free open-source montecarlo raytracing engine released under the LGPL 2.1 license. Raytracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Blender
    Discontinued

    The GitHub repository was archived in July 2020.

    YafaRay Features

    1.  Ray Tracing
    2.  Rendering

    YafaRay VS Arion

     
  11. NOX Renderer icon
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    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.

    A linking script is also available for Blender users.

    As with other similar applications, such as Maxwell Render a.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • PL flagPoland
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    NOX Renderer Features

    1.  Rendering
    2. Autodesk 3ds Max icon  3ds Max Integration

    NOX Renderer VS Arion

     
  12. RenderMan icon
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    PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    RenderMan Features

    1.  Rendering
    2.  3D Renderer
    3.  High-resolution images

    RenderMan VS Arion

     
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