Additional Information

Real-Time Ray Tracing 3D Rendering Software for Windows PC

Version D5 Render 2.4.0
Requirements

Windows 10/Windows 11

Updated June 25, 2023
Author Dimension 5 Techs
Category Imaging and Digital Photo
License Demo
Language English
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Overview

D5 Render is an advanced real-time ray tracing engine that can empower 3D designers and architects to realize their dreams without the need to wait for prolonged periods of time for rendered scenes. Instead of traditionally slow rendering passes that other solutions provide, D5 Render revolutionizes the visual storytelling production workflows by focusing on real-time rendering that is accelerated by the latest GPU technologies.
Powered by a fully featured editor and advanced rendering solutions that are receiving regular updates, this application is today regarded as one of the most forward-looking on the market.

The desktop app maximizes the potential of real-time rendering of ray-traced environments (both small-scale architectural designs and large open environments with realistic lightning and weather effects) by utilizing all the tricks that can accelerate hardware-intensive expensive and time-consuming rendering passes.

This includes support for a GPU-accelerated ray-tracing, world space denoiser, proprietary Global Illumination solution with adaptive sampling, and industry-leading upscale solutions such as DLSS and FSR. This powerful editor can do it all, it can render 4K videos, 16K photos, allow users to fully control their camera, video keyframes, virtual reality real-time playback, and more.

Editor features cover an incredible variety of tools that cover every segment of production – importing models, managing materials, setting up lights, adding weather effects, bringing life into the scene with realistic vegetation, and much more. And the best thing yet, doing all the setup work is done with real-time rendering that is almost as close to the quality as high-end offline renders.

D5 Render simply accelerates the process of iteration and design, removing the uncertainty and helping users to better use their precious time. Starting a new project can be accelerated greatly with the help of cloud-based models and materials D5 Works library holds over 10 thousand high-quality assets. It can also be easily integrated into workflow popular modeling software solutions, including Cinema 4K, Blender, 3Ds Max, SketchUp, Revit, Archicad, and Rhino.
  • Real-time Presentation with Pixel-level Precision
  • Ultra Efficiency Puts Rendering on Full Throttle
  • Light and Shadow, Wind and Rain. All in Your Hand!
  • The New Generation PBR Material
  • Build the Scene with Everything You Need
  • Explore at Your Will
  • 3D Assets Come to Life
  • Build Your Own Workflow

It can be used for free, with access to almost every service it offers (only *D5 Works cloud-based asset library is out of reach). The Premium version of the app can be purchased via monthly or yearly subscription.

What‘s New

Rendering

  • New D5 GI
  • Improved material emissive effect
  • Subsurface scattering material
  • Z-depth channel
  • Vegetation Cull Distance
  • Blend amount setting for grass material textures
  • New preview modes to control image quality

New Features

  • More frame rate options for video rendering
  • Improved two-point perspective view
  • Camera focal length
  • Support switching between horizontal/vertical FOV
  • Drop models on the ground
  • Support creating curve/linear paths for the path tool
  • Support setting fixed spacing distance for vegetation path
  • Support custom combination of vegetation, characters, and other models
  • Support opening the file location of maps imported by D5 Converters
  • Support reading the north offset parameter from .skp files
  • Support closing D5 Render automatically after render queue is finished
  • Support opening .abc files directly from the welcome page
  • Support opening the Preference from the welcome page
  • Support clearing auto-saved backups and imported models
  • Improved scatter tool with better effects and compatibility with hedge assets
  • Improved random offset effect for vegetation path
  • Improved model replacing feature for the path tool
  • Improved search and filter functions of the object list
  • Improved camera movement in video rendering
  • Improved coordinate axis spatial position
  • Improved display effect of the rotation control
  • Action tips in the viewport
  • Open D5 help center directly from the top right corner of D5 Render
  • A shortcut icon is created for .d5a files

Productivity

  • Support AV1 encoding
  • Support QSV encoding
  • Open the welcome page faster

Assets

  • New hedge assets
  • New commonly used arborous plants
  • New static and dynamic Asian characters
  • Subsurface scattering materials and models
  • New dynamic transportation assets
  • Backdrop planes
  • New dynamic water particles
  • Support adjusting the color temperature of interior parallax
  • Improved movement effect of some dynamic characters
  • Improved quality of some vegetation models

System Requirement

D5 Render is optimized only for modern versions of Windows OS (Windows 11/10 and version 1809 or higher) and requires at least NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU (a raytracing-capable NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or stronger is recommended).

Previous versions More »

2.4.0 June 24, 2023 884 MB 2.3.0 June 23, 2023 884 MB