The rendering capabilities of Clarisse are highly advanced.
For instance, it facilitates the integration of rendered images and sequences from other
3D rendering software by deep image output.
To break it down, Clarisse outputs depth information for every pixel.
You can learn Clarisse for free with the Personal Learning Edition.
The renders made with the PLE are limited to 2560×1440 resolution and may not be used
for commercial purposes.
Clarisse is the best 3D rendering software for commercial studios that try to streamline
their production pipeline.
As of 2011 Blender has a new-fangled, cutting-edge renderer called Cycles.
It’s a realistic rendering, with full-fledged global illumination and physically accurate
calculations.
It’s proved to be wildly popular and has quickly become Blender’s premier render
engine.
Cycles has garnered notable respect from the computer graphics industry.
In fact, other 3D software developers have even ported it to other applications, like
Cinema 4D and Rhino.
Realism, realism, realism: Without question, Cycles is the best choice for realistic rendering.
And since it’s built on physically-based principles, it’s very easy to use from an
artistic standpoint.
To even attempt realism with non physically-based scanline renders
GPU-acceleration: Even though Cycles’ development results in faster and faster rendering speeds
over time, it’s biggest negative is still that general render times are long.
Because hey, emulating reality’s complex system of light is kinda hard!
However, to combat this, Cycles’ offers GPU acceleration that can drastically reduce
render times.
LuxRender LuxRender is an unbiased/biased 3D rendering
software that is available under an OpenSource license.
On a wide range of features, LuxRender can compete with commercial rendering solutions:
The materials used are physically based, thus enabling photorealistic results.
Even complex phenomena like subsurface scattering and volumetrics are supported by LuxRender.
To help minimize the overall render time, users can choose to render in biased mode.
To the same end, instanced objects may be used in this 3D rendering software.
Because of LuxRender’s impressive range of features, it is an excellent 3D rendering
software for special effects and architectural visualization.
NOX
A new render called NOX was announced the company behind it is Evermotion, a well-known
portal dedicated to architectural visualization based mostly in 3ds Max and V-Ray.
Their renderer NOX is an unbiased render engine that can create realistic images based on
the metropolis Light Transport algorithm.
According to the description of NOX, this is a CPU only renderer, which could make it
take quite some time to render images.
The renderer is free, and anyone can download and use it.
And along a plugin to export scenes from 3ds Max, NOX has an exporter for Blender 2.5.
Unfortunately NOX is a windows only application.
To be able to download NOX you must be a registered user at Evermotion.
Yafaray YafaRay is a free open-source ray-tracing
render engine.
Ray-tracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing
the path of light through a 3D scene.
A render engine consists of a "faceless" computer program that interacts with a host
3D application to provide very specific ray-tracing capabilities "on demand".
Blender 3D is the host application of YafaRay.
Eevee
Eevee is by far one of the most exciting render.
Not only it will give you a brand new real-time render, but also a way to create animations
for architecture quickly.
Eevee already reaches a stable release.
Few artists are already trying to put Eevee to work, and i might have found of the first
architectural visualization projects using Eevee.
You have see images from that project.
That is more than enough to give you a glimpse of what to expect with the use of good textures,
lights, and a good GPU.
Why is that a big deal?
Remember that it is a real-time render engine.
Meaning instant render no time needed to “cook” the image or to get rid of noise.
Using a technology like that to generate images for architecture will definitively change
the way we work with Blender.
Oh yes.
As all previos renders eevee is totaly free too!