Up to date currently active Unbiased render engines

Support Lighting and Rendering
1

I know about:

  1. Luxrender

  2. Mitsuba

Does anyone know of any more extremely advanced cutting edge render engines for Blender ?

2

Can I say Yafaray when you use path tracing ?

3

Sure when was the last update ?

4

About 1-2 weeks ago, Irradiance Cache.
Before that, 11.05.2013 was Yafaray 0.1.5 update.

5

Thanks, how ever is seem its still much more beta software and and sppm crashes.

6

For me, Yafaray 0.1.5 (no irradiance cache) 64bit works fine, no crashes. Win7 Ultimate 64bit. Its my job render engine (especially SPPM).

7

Lux, Mitsuba, Appleseed, Cycles, Arnold, Maxwell, Indigo, Thea, and many, many others. It’s a hotbed of activity right now.

8

Thank you but does the commercial software really have blender support ?

I am mainly looking for Open source render engines.

9

There you go. Happy browsing.
http://www.pointzero.nl/renderers/

10

That’s a nice list but it appears very outdated.

11

And what facts make you say that?

12

Appleseed, Maxwell, Indigo, and Thea all have official or semi-official support with Blender. There was also a BtoA project a while back for integrating Arnold with Blender, and I hear whispers every once in a while about some news on that front in the near future.

13

If they are making a plugin for Blender to Arnold it would be from a third party group. I think Arnold (SolidAngle) is targeting the more
mainstream software like Maya,MAX,XSI etc.

14

Free software for non commercial use is a requirement, paying big money for a hobby is nothing im willing to do.