The development started in 2008, and the name of the engine changed from LuxRender to LuxCoreRender in 2017. This is a free and open-source render engine that works with Blender. So, it stacks these NPR features to make a final material. Diffuse is a feature, hatching is a feature, rim light is a feature. What’s different about how this render engine works is that instead of nodes and node groups as material building blocks, BEER runs with the paradigm of NPR features as the building block of a material. To make something clear, MALT is the backend of BEER and it is currently under development. It can be used for rendering projects such as anime, webcomics, line designs, sketches, and so on.

The good thing is that it is free and open-source because it is crowdfunded by the Blender NPR Community. It is non-photoreal and stylized render engine that can be used with Blender. But it has lightning speed and performance which makes it very interesting. It is in its early stage now: due to that its features are a bit far from production-ready. Omniverse uses ray tracing and path tracing based on Nvidia’s RTX technology. Nevertheless, we believe that it still has its place on this Blender render engines list as a teaser.

The guys at Nvidia promised that there will be a Blender version that they are working on right now without announcing a set release date. Just to be clear it is now available for many 3d software such as 3ds Max, Maya, Substance Painter, Unreal engine… This is a new render engine that Nvidia is working on right now and it is very promising.

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