Light Tracer Render
Intuitive tool to quickly create amazing-looking images and
animations with photo-real quality
animations with photo-real quality
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What’s new
What’s new
Bring your ideas to life with the extended animation features! Now you can animate objects, lights, cameras, and the environment map in a consistent manner. Real-time physics simulations have been streamlined. Making animations has never been so easy!
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Incredible 3D rendering tool
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.
Across any industry
The real-time workflow you need
Modify materials, light sources, and geometry in real time
Light Tracer responds instantly to all scene changes, making product design both easy and enjoyable. Achieve photographic results within seconds on any recent GPU
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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
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 970 / GeForce GTX 1650 / AMD Radeon RX 580 / Apple M1
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Create stunning images and animations with photo-real quality. Get top-tier performance on any GPU
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No tricks. Just true physics of light
Physically-based GPU engine
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 allows for efficient handling of caustics, indirect illumination, and hidden light sources.
Make photos, not renderings
ACES color workflow
The render engine uses the Academy Color Encoding System, featuring an RGB-based workflow with a high dynamic range and an 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 even faster using Intel® Open Image Denoise or NVIDIA OptiX™ denoiser. These tools efficiently filter out noise from your renders, delivering clean images in a fraction of the time.
Fits your industry
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.
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.
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
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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 2.9.1
macOS
macOS Catalina or newer
Download 2.9.1
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
Always Up to Date
Full-featured Web version
Priority E-mail support included
$9.99
$8.99/mo
Yearly Plan
One floating license which can be used from any computer you own
Paid every year
Always Up to Date
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 2.x updates included
Full-featured Web version
Priority E-mail support included
Visualization showcase
Light Tracer Render is used to create high-quality renderings across many industries
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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
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
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5
2
2
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1
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A free tool to measure how fast your graphics card renders
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Latest blog posts
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!
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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.
Jun 7, 2024
News
After a long wait, we are pleased to announce the new release of Light Tracer Render 2.9.0! We appreciate your patience for this release, and we’ve packed it with features that we believe are well worth the wait.
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Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions regarding Light Tracer's GPU rendering engine
How to configure a web browser for optimal rendering performance?
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