Top 15 Kray Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 that allow it to render full global illumination, reflections, refractions and caustics very fast on standard computers.

It is currently available as a Lightwave plugin and a standalone application. It integrates tightly into LightWave and supports most of LightWave features and it's being constantly updated with new ones. Kray is not limited to LightWave architecture and provides you powerful features which are not available in LightWave like powerful tonemapping, instancing and linear workflow.
It is easy to port Kray render engine to any software via Kray SDK and KrayScript. ...

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10. Shaderlight

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11. VirtualRender

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12. finalRender

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13. MiniLight

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