June 5, 2021 Linh Nguyen

Best Blender Addons for Rendering and Lighting

A large part of Blender’s success comes from the community that developed it. The open-source nature of Blender encourages enthusiasts and professionals alike to contribute their time and expertise in the name of making a better Blender. This is widely visible in the massive variety of plugins you can find for Blender on the web. These plugins extend the program and improve its capabilities. And it seems like new plugins pop up every day. In today’s Blog, we are going to talk about Some of the best Blender Addons for rendering and lighting different types of environments and scenes that Artists can use to save time and create more realistic renders or non realistic renders if they need to.

How can the best Blender addons for rendering and lighting be an asset? The answer has a tight bond with specific realism goals as you’ll see in the following description. In other words, it’s either to save you tons of time on rendering or to enhance the realism of your scenes. A lot of these addons are really good and can be relied on for different purposes and to achieve different results. 

1. Physical Starlight And Atmosphere

Physical Starlight And Atmosphere is an add-on that allows you to simulate the atmosphere, and can reproduce the sun and sky more realistically than Sun Light, which is included in Blender by default. Physical Starlight and Atmosphere” is a full environmental simulator that brings visual consistency when looking at objects in the scene. This addon can simulate any star and the Sky is not only a static skydome. But the whole atmosphere – from the ground to space and beyond. Calculations are based on physical properties of how light is interacting with the gaseous medium.

This addon fills Blender scenes with air or any other gas where density at the ground level is the highest. And the air will be reduced as we move out into space using physics laws. Which simulates the real world and as a result, we will get more believable renders. The Most critical part of the calculation is the fog. Like in the real world, it changes based on the altitude of the observer. Even though this addon is based on real-world physics it still gives artists the freedom to control their scenes and environment according to their needs. It is certainly one of the best Blender addons for lighting and its auxiliary purposes.

2. Renderman

Pixar RenderMan (formerly PhotoRealistic RenderMan) is proprietary photorealistic 3D rendering software produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Pixar uses RenderMan to render their in-house 3D animated movie productions and it is also available as a commercial product licensed to third parties. Pixar RenderMan is a very strong and efficient render engine produced by Pixar Animation Studios. They use RenderMan to render their in-house 3D animated movie productions and it is also available as a commercial product licensed to third parties. And for those who don’t want to use it for commercial purposes, it is completely free. This tool gives artists access to Pixar’s toolbox for lighting and look development. Real tools that have already created amazingly sophisticated and complex imagery for feature film. 

Renderman standard was first presented at 1993 SIGGRAPH, developed with input from 19 companies. Hollywood has been using it to create digital visual effects for blockbuster movies such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Toy Story, Jurassic Park, Avatar, Titanic, the Star Wars prequels, and The Lord of the Rings. The engine has received two Academy Scientific and Technical Awards. In the same vein, it ended up earning a prestigious spot on the list of the best Blender addons for rendering. On the other hand, the community considers it one of the best Blender addons for lighting as well. That is to say that it merges both of the concepts in such a harmonious way.

3. Vray

It was the Bulgarian company Chaos Group that developed it. Professionals and hobbyists use it for visualizations and entertainment like film and video game production, but mostly in architecture, industrial design, product design. Architects and designers used for the longest time, using CAD software and rendering software such as 3ds Max. But recently in the last few years, they created a version for Blender.

Vray is one of the best Blender addons for rendering in all industries. And one of those that have been around for the longest period of time. Chaos Group constantly develops and enhances over the years. Firstly, it used to be harder to adjust the settings to prepare scenes. However, now it is becoming easier and it is able to create better quality renders in a shorter period of time. To keep up with the other competitive render engines that can generate amazing quality with little to no configuration.

4. NVIDIA Omniverse

This is a new render engine that Nvidia is working on right now and it is very promising. Just to be clear it is now available for many 3d software such as 3ds Max, Maya, Substance Painter, Unreal engine…
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. Nevertheless, we believe that it still has its place on this Blender render engines list as a teaser.
Omniverse uses ray tracing and path tracing based on Nvidia’s RTX technology. It is in its early stage now: due to that its features are a bit far from production-ready. But it has lightning speed and performance which makes it very interesting.

Final thought

We hope this overview will help you choose a suitable but high computing configuration for Blender as well as we hope through today’s Blog you will choose a plugin that is suitable for Blender. As you may know, iRender provide to you high performance and configurable server system for 3D rendering, AI Training, VR & AR, simulation, etc. With our server, you can install any software you need, add your license, and do whatever you like with your project. These tools above are no exception. Most tools for fluids are computationally expensive. Understanding that, we have different config and package compatible with them, from CPU to single GPU, dual and even multi-GPUs.

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