Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to V-Ray

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

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to V-Ray are Unity, appleseed, and Mitsuba. 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.

Unity Landing Page
1

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
appleseed Landing Page
2

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
3

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
Godot Engine Landing Page
4

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions
GDevelop Landing Page
5

GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 75 social mentions
FreeCAD Landing Page
6

FreeCAD

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

Ninject

Application and Data, Languages & Frameworks, and Game Development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine
Horde3D Landing Page
8

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
libjpeg-turbo Landing Page
9

libjpeg-turbo

libjpeg-turbo is a derivative of libjpeg that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON) to...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 2 social mentions
Armor Paint Landing Page
10

Armor Paint

Armor paint is a standalone software for 3d texture painting in PBR.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Digital Drawing And Painting #3D Modeling 18 social mentions
Malt Landing Page
11

Malt

Blender rendering framework for Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR).
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Game Development #3D Rendering
MoonRay Landing Page
12

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