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Arnold

Arnold is an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer built for the demands of feature-length animation and visual effects. subtitle

Top 8 Open-Source Alternatives to Arnold

Unity appleseed MonoGame Horde3D MoonRay Mitsuba Malt Godot Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Arnold are Unity, appleseed, and MonoGame. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
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    The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions

  2. appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #3D #3D Rendering #3D Modeling 1 social mentions

  3. MonoGame is an open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 2 social mentions

  4. Horde3D is a small open source 3D rendering engine that is written to create a graphics engine that offers visual effects expected in next-generation games that has a intuitive interface accessible from any programming language.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #3D #Game Development #3D Rendering

  5. MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render all DreamWorks movies since How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #3D #3D Rendering #Game Development 1 social mentions

  6. Mitsuba is a research-oriented rendering system in the style of PBRT, from which it derives much inspiration.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #3D #Game Development #3D Rendering

  7. 7
    Blender rendering framework for Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR).
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #3D #Game Development #3D Rendering

  8. Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 446 social mentions

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