MoonRay – DreamWorks' open-source production MCRT renderer
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- MoonRay is DreamWorks' open-source, multi-award-winning MCRT renderer used in films like How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Bad Guys, and Kung Fu Panda 4.
- Developed and maintained by DreamWorks Animation, MoonRay includes production-tested materials, a USD Hydra render delegate, and cloud rendering via Arras.
- Recent updates include a developer regression suite, NUMA architecture support, a new GUI program (rdla_gui), and shared memory framebuffer interface.
- MoonRay was presented at various conferences including Open Source Summit North America and Academy Software Foundation's Open Source Forum.
- DreamWorks has a tradition of contributing to the computer graphics community and continues active development of MoonRay.