Light Tracer Render

Intuitive tool to quickly create amazing-looking images and
animations with photo-real quality
What’s new

What’s new

The new version is here, and it's better than ever. It fully supports hardware ray tracing, so you can take advantage of the incredible capabilities of the latest NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. Get ready to be amazed by a render speed that's up to 3x faster than before!
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Hardware ray tracing / RTX support in Light Tracer Render 3.0
Incredible 3D rendering tool
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Incredible 3D rendering tool

Light Tracer is a super easy, fast, and incredible physically-based 3D rendering tool. With its real-time workflow, you can quickly create amazing photo-real shots and videos of your products. Check out our YouTube channel and Discord to get rendering tips and share your artwork!

Across any industry

You can use Light Tracer to create stunning renderings for any purpose and industry, whether you are operating as a business or a hobbyist. Quickly produce amazing visuals for your product designs, marketing materials, packaging, automotive projects, engineering, jewelry, and more.
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Across any industry

The real-time workflow you need

Modify materials, light sources, and geometry in real time
Real-time adjustment of PBR materialsReal-time adjustment of light sourcesReal-time adjustment of object positions
Light Tracer responds instantly to all scene changes, making product design both easy and enjoyable. Achieve photographic results within seconds on any recent GPU
Craft engaging visual stories

Craft engaging visual stories

Bring your scenes to life with physics simulations. Create keyframe animations of objects, light sources, and environments. Effortlessly design custom camera paths and lens animations. Import bone-based animated 3D models. Control your animations with a user-friendly timeline.
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World’s first renderer for web

World’s first renderer for web

In addition to native Windows and macOS versions, Light Tracer can run directly in a web browser delivering uncompromised raytracing quality. It leverages the power of your GPU and does not suffer from network latency and throughput limitations.
Run in web
Photorealistic rendering in a web browser
If you run the Web version on a dual-GPU laptop, ensure your browser uses a dedicated GPU
We recommend to use at least GeForce GTX 1070 / GeForce GTX 1660 / Radeon RX 580 / Apple M1

Try Light Tracer
Render now!

Create stunning images and animations with photo-real quality. Get top-tier performance on any GPU

No tricks. Just true physics of light

Physically-based GPU engine

The GPU render engine ensures physically correct light simulation and works on any graphics card. Both discrete and integrated GPUs are supported, such as NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple Silicon.

Fast and efficient

Leveraging the power of the GPU, Light Tracer renders at fully interactive speeds! Any changes to the scene are instantly visible on the screen, allowing you to tweak settings easily.

Advanced light transport

Light Tracer uses importance sampling and bi-directional path tracing for intelligent light-path construction. It efficiently handles caustics, indirect illumination, and hidden light sources.

Make photos, not renderings

ACES color workflow
Get the benefits of the Academy Color Encoding System, featuring an RGB-based workflow with a high dynamic range and ultra-wide gamut encompassing the entire spectral locus.
Tone mapping / Post-processing
Light Tracer features an advanced filmic tone mapping curve for displaying HDR images on LDR devices, as well as a thin lens camera model with a physically correct Depth-of-Field (DOF) effect.
Real-time AI denoising
Get final images faster using the GPU-accelerated AI denoiser. Based on the state-of-art Intel® OID library, it filters out noise from your renders, delivering clean images in a fraction of the time.

Fits your industry

Light Tracer Render can import a large number of 3D formats

Supported 3D formats

Import the most common 3D formats, such as OBJ, STL, PLY, glTF2.0, FBX, DAE, and 3DM, as well as STEP/IGES CAD formats. When importing from CAD, control target tessellation precision.
Light Tracer Render supports physically based materials

PBR material workflow

Create without limits with extended "Principled" material, which includes an optional clearcoat layer, and specialized “Rough Glass” material widely used in production rendering.
Light Tracer Render is packed with useful production rendering features

Production ready

Light Tracer supports render passes and layers, advanced post-processing, shadows/reflections catchers, labels/stickers, and seamless integration with customizable backplates/backdrops.

For artists and designers

Materials / HDRI library

To quickly set up scenes, Light Tracer Render offers a cloud library of over 1700 customizable PBR materials, HDRI maps, and studio lights, enabling you to achieve results as swiftly as possible. You can accurately simulate gemstones, metal, plastic, paint, leather, cloth, paper, rubber, and more.
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HDRI editor / IES lights

Easily illuminate your scene with incredible details using image-based lighting (IBL). Import existing HDRI maps or create your studio lighting environments with a built-in HDRI editor and a library of captured HDR lights. Additionally, emissive mesh lights with IES profiles are supported.
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Labels / stickers

One of the most anticipated features is finally here! Now, you can effortlessly place labels and logos on your products, creating a wide range of effects. You'll be amazed at how intuitive this workflow can be!
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Bring scene to life and show it to others

Built-in physics engine

Build your scenes with ease! Thanks to the built-in physics engine, you can interactively set life-like positions for scene objects during transformations. Bake physics simulations into animation tracks.

Animate like a director!

Light Tracer not only fully supports animated 3D models but also allows you to create keyframe-based animations for scene objects, environment maps, cameras, and lenses. This will transform the way you think about presenting your finished projects!

Render in a web browser!

Light Tracer is the world's first client-side, ray-tracing GPU rendering solution for the Web. Share your artwork with colleagues and clients in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and the latest versions of Safari!
Web version uses the same rendering engine, but has some limitations
See all features and learn the differences between versions 
here

Get Light Tracer Render

Download and register for a free 14-day trial
GPU released after 2013 with updated driver required (see details)
Windows
Windows 10/11 64-bit
Download 3.0.0
macOS
macOS 15 Sequoia+
Download 3.0.0
We constantly improve Light Tracer Render. See what's new in the most recent version

Choose your plan

Support the development and get full-featured standalone and web versions
$11.99/mo

Monthly Plan

One floating license which can be used from any computer you own
Paid every month
Access to all updates
Full-featured Web version
Priority E-mail support included
$8.99/mo

3-Month Plan

One floating license which can be used from any computer you own
Paid every 3 months
Access to all updates
Full-featured Web version
Priority E-mail support included
 $179 
$139.99

Perpetual License

One floating license which can be used from any computer you own
One-time payment
Version 3.x updates only
Full-featured Web version
Priority E-mail support included

Top rendering scores

Top-10 GPUs ranked by rendering performance in the Light Tracer engine
Higher scores are better, doubling the score indicates halving rendering time
Average score
180 598
151 435
116 157
110 431
94 863
92 728
86 481
85 612
83 240
Graphics card
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Runs
3
2
6
5
2
2
5
1
3

Find out your rendering score!

A free tool to measure how fast your graphics card renders
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Latest blog posts

Product rendering in Light Tracer Render
Jan 27, 2025
News
We’re happy to announce a major release of Light Tracer Render! This update delivers a significant boost in rendering speed, powered by hardware ray tracing, alongside a suite of usability improvements designed to streamline your creative workflow.
New Year's discount on Light Tracer Render
Dec 13, 2024
News
As the year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to wish you a joyful Christmas season and a New Year filled with happiness and success!
Animation of objects, lights, and camera in Light Tracer Render
Aug 22, 2024
News
We are pleased to announce that the latest version of Light Tracer Render has received the 2.9.1 update. It brings additional improvements and fixes for some discovered bugs.
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Light Engine develops first-class 3D rendering software to help you take out the best of your 3D models, reducing time and effort, and to publish your artwork on the web.
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