What's new in Moonray 1.7?

MoonRay 1.7 adds a new portal light type, and support for the Cryptomatte ID matte generation system within hdMoonRay, the MoonRay Hydra render delegate. The previous update, MoonRay 1.6, added a Fisheye camera and introduced native support for Apple Silicon processors.

Is Moonray free?

MoonRay has been on quite a journey these past few years. What originally began as an in-house renderer at DreamWorks Animation has now gone fully open source and is following a similar path to Pixar's RenderMan by making a powerful CG tool available to everyone (though MoonRay is free and Pixar's renderer has a fee attached).

What is a Moonray ray tracer?

MoonRay was a key part of the workflow for DreamWorks hit The Bad Guys. (Image credit: DreamWorks Animation) It’s a high-performance Monte Carlo ray tracer that’s capable of both DreamWorks’ trademark stylised look and photorealism.