The power of Kerkythea lies in it's simplicity and versatility of rendering ranging from simple ray tracing to Photon Mapping and Metropolis Light Transport. With even more render modes easily accessible from one-click preset list. You may setup your materials, lights, environment once but experiment with various different render modes.

All these integrated within an advanced staging application and introducing the instancing brush (earning KT2008 the name "Echo"). It features instancing by loading the "Brush" with any model or group of models and painting (scattering) instances of that onto any model "canvas" object you choose. Or, you can choose auto-population of the canvas determined by grid, or driven by texture mask! Now featuring MLT(BiPT) Metropolis Light Transport on top of Bidirectional Path Tracing to handle the most demanding indirect lighting scenes.

Robust and completely re-vamped material editor featuring nk/ior measured data support, synthesis layer, procedural ramps, improved materials, IES lights and the new cross-platform plugin SDK for developers who want to write and experiment with their own procedurals, materials and lights. Also featuring generic speed increase with respect to previous version, multithreading, cross-platform network rendering, model/light grouping, physical camera settings and orthogonal rendering, sun-sky portal and much more! Kerkythea now supports a zipped xml version (kzx extension) for saving files which, combined with instancing, can result in file sizes 5% to 10% the size of previous versions' saved .xml scenes.

We are really proud of releasing the new version completely free which you can find in our Downloads section. We would like to thank all the members of the forum and even more the RC testers who gave us the oportunity to improve consistently the application. We will continue like this based on your ideas for improvements and feedback for fine tuning the application.