Two years ago DreamWorks Animation open-sourced their MoonRay renderer that is an award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer used for a number of feature films. Since then they have continued advancing this open-source code as OpenMoonRay and adding more features . The newest feature release of OpenMoonRay is now available with yet more capabilities for this impressive renderer.

OpenMoonRay 2.15.0.1 is the newest version available... Yes, the versioning is a bit of a surprise with their prior release being OpenMoonRay 1.7.0.0. The versioning scheme comes due to aligning with how DreamWorks Animation handles their internal repositories.

Most notable with the new OpenMoonRays release is adding NUMA architecture support along with CPU / memory affinity controls to yield better performance on modern NUMA systems.

OpenMoonRay also landed a new developer regression test suite and a variety of new renderer features. Plus a number of bug fixes.

Those wanting to learn more about the new OpenMoonRay renderer release can do so via GitHub .