Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to POV-Ray

POV-Ray

What was then called STAR-Light, and later renamed to PV-Ray and ultimately POV-Ray, has therefore been on this planet for a whopping 9, 190 (or 11, 000) revolutions by now (plus another guesstimated 150 above it).

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D 3D Game Engine 3D Modeling 3D Rendering Architecture CAD Digital Drawing And Painting Game Development Game Engine Illustration Vector Graphic Editor

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to POV-Ray are appleseed, Mitsuba, and MoonRay. 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.

appleseed Landing Page
1

appleseed

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
Mitsuba Landing Page
2

Mitsuba

Mitsuba is a research-oriented rendering system in the style of PBRT, from which it derives much inspiration.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Rendering #Game Development
MoonRay Landing Page
3

MoonRay

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
Malt Landing Page
4

Malt

Blender rendering framework for Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR).
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Game Development #3D Rendering
OpenSCAD Landing Page
5

OpenSCAD

OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Architecture #CAD 95 social mentions
FreeCAD Landing Page
6

FreeCAD

An open-source parametric 3D modeler
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Modeling #CAD 2 social mentions
ImplicitCAD Landing Page
7

ImplicitCAD

ImplicitCAD is a programmatic CAD program, implemented in Haskell.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Modeling #CAD
LibreCAD Landing Page
8

LibreCAD

An open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Architecture #3D Modeling 19 social mentions
Horde3D Landing Page
9

Horde3D

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
Wings 3D Landing Page
10

Wings 3D

Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Digital Drawing And Painting #3D Modeling
Infinigen Landing Page
11

Infinigen

Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Architecture #Vector Graphic Editor
Unity Landing Page
12

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions