Free Maxwell Alternatives
Maxwell is described as '3D rendering software for architects and designers. Maxwell is legendary for its quality and realism, and delivers great results via a simple set-up, which lets you focus on lighting'. There are more than 25 alternatives to Maxwell for various platforms. The best alternative is Cycles Renderer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Maxwell are LuxCoreRender (Free, Open Source), appleseed (Free, Open Source), RenderMan (Free Personal) and Mitsuba (Free).
- Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine and in development since 2011. View 18 alternatives to Cycles Renderer
- 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. View 48 alternatives to LuxCoreRender
- appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects. View 51 alternatives to appleseed
- PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer. View 49 alternatives to RenderMan
- Sunflow is an open-source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis. View 49 alternatives to Sunflow Rendering System
- Pixie is an open source RenderMan renderer for generating photorealistic images. View 48 alternatives to Pixie Renderer
- Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes. View 45 alternatives to Freestyle
- Radeon ProRender (formerly AMD FireRender) is a powerful physically-based rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images. View 18 alternatives to Radeon ProRender
- 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. View 52 alternatives to YafaRay