EmberGen Alternatives

EmberGen is described as 'Uses the full power of your GPU—so you can simulate and render volumetric phenomena in real-time for faster iterations than ever before. Utilize random seeds to generate new variations on the fly' and is a VFX software in the photos & graphics category. There are eight alternatives to EmberGen for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flatpak and Flathub apps. The best EmberGen alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like EmberGen are Natron, Bforartists, Cinema 4D and Houdini.

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  1. Blender icon

    Blender

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    A comprehensive open-source 3D software suite for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, and animating. It supports renderings, simulations including fluid and cloth dynamics, complex compositing, video editing, and Python scripting, running across all major operating systems.

    139 Blender alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Steam
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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    • Blender is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to EmberGen.

    • Blender is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to EmberGen.

    • Blender is Free and Open SourceEmberGen is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Blender is Customizable, Lightweight and Privacy focusedEmberGen is not according to our users
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    Natron

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    Natron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO. The feature set includes realtime playback/RAM cache, multi-threaded rendering, 2d tracking...

    18 Natron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Bforartists icon

    Bforartists

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    Bforartists is a complete 3D suite to create 3D content. It offers you the full 3D art pipeline to create game graphics, prerendered movies and stills.

    72 Bforartists alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • MorphOS
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  5. Cinema 4D icon

    Cinema 4D

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    CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application, produced by MAXON Computer GmbH of Friedrichsdorf, Germany. Noted for its flexible interface and ease of use, it is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modelling, animating, lighting, texturing...

    47 Cinema 4D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Cinema 4D is the most popular commercial alternative to EmberGen.

    • Cinema 4D is Paid and ProprietaryEmberGen is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Houdini

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    Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:

    • Modeling - All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier Curves/Patches & Trims, Metaballs
    • Animation - Keyframed animation and raw channel manipulation (CHOPs), motion captur.
    48 Houdini alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Autodesk Flame icon

    Autodesk Flame

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    Autodesk Flame software is a powerful finishing and visual effects solution with an integrated environment that accelerates creative workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. PopcornFX icon

    PopcornFX

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    A suite of tools dedicated to real-time visual effects creation, along with ready-to-run mainstream game engine integrations and a runtime simulation framework for custom integration.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  10. Nirvana 3D icon

    Nirvana 3D

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    A game engine written in Python, extending support across multiple GPU devices with 3D rendering, PBR Renderer and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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    • Nirvana 3D is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to EmberGen.

    • Nirvana 3D is Free and Open SourceEmberGen is Freemium and Proprietary
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