Top 15 Picogen Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

A free Terrain Synthesizer and RendererPicogen is an outdoor ray tracing system, a free Terrain Synthesizer and Renderer targeting large-scale terrain with realistic day/night-illumination and detailed plant populations.

1. PnP TerrainCreator

PnP TerrainCreator PnP TerrainCreator is a highly integrated tool for large scale terrain creation. Featuring manual as well as automated/randomized terrain generation including heightmaps, texturing, vegetation, seas and rivers, static objects and environmental sounds enabeling you to build a complete diversified terrain with just one tool.......

2. Visual Nature Studio

Visual Nature Studio Visual Nature Studio 3's redesigned interface makes creating complex scenes easier than ever before! Additionally, faster rendering of animations along with still shots guarantees faster delivery of final product.If a picture is worth a thousand words, a visualization may be the key to receiving government or public approval on a......

3. Acropora

Acropora Voxelogic develops voxel-based modeling tools for terrains as well as 3D objects.Acropora is a procedural voxel modeler for creating complex, organic mesh topologies that are useful for all types of 3D modeling applications. AcroporaTM incorporates some of the latest advances in voxel modeling technology. Features include: * A variety of......

4. WorldBuilder

WorldBuilder WorldBuilder, a stand-alone scene builder and renderer with unsurpassed compatibly with Max, Maya, LightWave, and SoftImage, is the premier tool for laying out and rendering 3D outdoor environments.......

5. World Machine

World Machine World Machine is a proven terrain generation solution for artists, game developers, visual effects studios and other visualization professionals......

6. Natural Scene Designer

Natural Scene Designer Natural Creative Power that's Easy To UseNatural Graphics is the developer of Natural Scene Designer -- a powerful yet easy to use 3D program which lets you design, render, and animate natural outdoor scenes. Its intuitive interface makes it easy to use for beginners, while advanced users will appreciate its......

7. L3DT

L3DT L3DT is a Windows application for generating terrain maps and textures.It is intended to help game developers and digital artists create vast high-quality 3D worlds.......

8. vSwarm

vSwarm Render your 3D animations fasterUsing Blender or Luxrender and need some serious horsepower for a render, but don’t own a renderfarm? Well good news! vSwarm is attempting to bring the power of tools like Seti@Home and Folding@Home to render farms, allowing users worldwide to install a simple client on their......

9. Outerra

Outerra Outerra Engine is a global world rendering engine capable of seamless real time rendering of planets from space down to centimeter details on the surface. It can use arbitrary resolution of elevation data, refining it further to the finest resolution using fractal algorithms and procedural techniques.Unlimited visibility, progressive download of......

10. DrQueue

DrQueue DrQueue is an open source software tool used to manage a render farm. It provides distributed render queueing on a per-frame basis and management of these tasks. It is primarily used for animations used as visual effects in films and advertising.OverviewThe application is composed of three main tools: master, slave......

11. Shaderlight

Shaderlight As an interactive, photorealistic renderer, Shaderlight redefines traditional rendering workflows. Simple to learn and easy to use, it features ‘progressive’ rendering that lets you see your image develop as you work so you can visualize your ideas in no time.Not only can you move objects or camera angles within a......

12. AIR

AIR AIR is an advanced 3D graphics renderer with a unique architecture and extensive features designed for the rapid production of high-quality images. AIR is a hybrid renderer, combining the advantages of scanline rendering - fast rendering of complex scenes, motion blur, and depth of field - with the flexibility of......

13. Qosmic

Qosmic Qosmic is graphical interface for creating, editing, and rendering flam3 fractal images. The electricsheep screen saver has been gaining popularity, and Qosmic was developed to provide a Qt interface for people interested in creating and contributing sheep.......

14. Oxidizer

Oxidizer "Oxidizer is a free open source fractal flame editor for the Apple Macintosh, running OSX 10.4 or greater."Although not quite the same as chaoscope (it is a fractal flame generator instead of a strange attractor generator), it is a great alternative to chaoscope. The program takes a little getting used......

15. Chaoscope

Chaoscope Chaoscope is a 3D strange attractors rendering software. The word "Chaoscope" was invented by Ralph Abraham to describe computer tools used to help comprehending dynamic systems, a superset of the strange attractors.......