What’s new
What’s new
Version 3.3.0 is a big update focused on faster, physically accurate jewelry rendering and broader product-visualization capabilities. You can now create photorealistic jewelry animations in minutes, with improved environment setup per object, new jewelry materials, HDRI library, and better shadow catcher.
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Incredible 3D rendering tool
Render it. Instantly
Light Tracer is an intuitive, physically-based 3D rendering tool built for designers who hate waiting. Setup the scene, tweak materials and lighting, adjust details—and see photorealistic results instantly, from stills to fully animated product videos. All without ever leaving your creative flow.
Built for jewelry.
Powerful for products
Light Tracer is designed for high-detail jewelry and product visualization. It gives you tools made for accurate gemstone and metal rendering, per-object HDRI control, and effortless studio lighting setup—all backed by an expansive built-in library of materials and environments.
Across any industry
The real-time workflow you need
Adjust materials, set the lighting, and animate on the fly
Light Tracer responds instantly to every tweak, so you can explore more ideas in less time.
Photorealistic results in seconds—backed by a rich library of assets ready to use.
Photorealistic results in seconds—backed by a rich library of assets ready to use.
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Craft engaging visual stories
Bring your products to life!
Create captivating animations that showcase every angle of a jewelry piece or demonstrate a product in action. Keyframe objects and environments, fly through scenes with custom camera paths, or record physics for natural movement—all controlled through a simple, intuitive timeline.
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World’s first renderer for web
Render anywhere.
Share instantly
In addition to Windows and macOS versions, Light Tracer runs directly in a web browser—with uncompromised ray-tracing quality. Whether you're in the studio using the native app or sharing a live link with a client, your work is always ready to impress.
Run in web
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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
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Real work, not just test renders
14 days. No credit card. No watermarks. Just your email and complete access to Light Tracer Render.
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No tricks. Just true physics of light
Renders you can trust
Light Tracer simulates light with scientific accuracy. Every ray is calculated correctly—from how it interacts with each surface to how it reaches the camera. Images don’t just look real—they are physically accurate.
Your GPU, fully unleashed
Your GPU is powerful. We make sure you use all of it. Full support for hardware ray tracing on NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs. Interactive speeds even on complex scenes. No waiting. No wasted hardware.
Light finds the way. Fast
Complex light? Handled. Light Tracer uses intelligent sampling and bi-directional path tracing to capture every bounce, every caustic, every hidden emitter. Automatically. Instantly.
Make photos, not renderings
Color that stays true
Light Tracer brings the Academy Color Encoding System to your workflow. Wider gamut. Higher dynamic range. Colors that remain perfectly consistent from your first creative decision to your final render.
Film-like look for every render
Filmic tone mapping. Cinematic depth of field. Bloom with glare that makes gemstones truly sparkle—catching light, casting streaks, revealing the fire hidden in every facet. Every render feels alive.
Real-time AI denoising
Noise vanishes. Instantly. Light Tracer's real-time AI denoiser—powered by Intel® OID library—lets you skip the thousands of samples. 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
See all features and learn the differences between versions (here)
Get Light Tracer Render
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GPU released after 2014 with updated driver required (see details)
Windows
Windows 10/11 64-bit
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macOS
macOS 15 Sequoia+
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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
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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
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Latest blog posts
Oct 8, 2025
News
LTR 3.2.1 is a refinement release focused on reliability and day-to-day ergonomics: better undo/redo and a handful of fixes that remove little papercuts from your workflow.
July 3, 2025
News
This release is primarily designed for jewelry designers, introducing support for custom HDRI maps for stones and metal frames.
Mar 14, 2025
News
Meet the new web version, built on an entirely new rendering core powered by WebGPU. This version also features a redesigned bloom effect, now capable of handling glare and streaks.
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Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions regarding Light Tracer's GPU rendering engine
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