YafaRay Alternatives
YafaRay has been discontinued. Similar apps include MoonRay, which is free and open source. Other options are Adobe Dimension, LuxCoreRender, POV-Ray and V-Ray. Graphic Design Tools like YafaRay are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, self-hosting and the web.
Alternatives list
43 Kerkythea alternativesPowerful, 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Sketchup
- Blender
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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 of scenes where indirect light plays important role. It includes most advanced modern algorithms and optimizations.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- LightWave
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).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
Poland
EU
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48 Octane Render alternativesOctane 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 photorealistic results fast...really fast. This allows the user to create stunning works in a fraction of the time of...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
United States
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OctaneBench® allows you to benchmark your GPU using OctaneRender. This provides a level playing field by making sure that everybody uses the same version and the same scenes and settings. Without these constraints, benchmark results can vary a lot.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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 development and experimentation. And it just might be the neatest renderer around (on average, about 650 lines).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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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 of the final drawing: the user "programs" how the silhouettes and other feature lines from the 3D...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Tungsten is a physically based renderer I originally wrote in early 2014 for the Image Synthesis Rendering Competition at ETH, where it won 1st place with the image pictured above. It is intended for offline rendering in graphics research and is still in development, at least...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Arnold is an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer built for the demands of feature-length animation and visual effects. Originally co-developed with Sony Pictures Imageworks and now their main renderer, Arnold is used at over 300 studios worldwide including ILM, Framestore...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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