About

Simbionts are plugins for rendering DarkTree procedural shaders, 3D maps, and materials in leading 3D software packages.  Site licenses for all Simbionts are included with your purchase of DarkTree so you can affordably outfit an entire studio and collaborate with other artists.

Non-DarkTree owners are free to download and use the starred [*] Simbionts and shaders available on this site as an example of DarkTree’s capabilities. However, some Simbionts have limited features when used in free mode.

 Choose your 3D R enderer

Simbionts are available for a number of 3D renderers:

• 3ds Max (limited features for non-DarkTree owners)
• Animation:Master*
• Cinema4D*
• LightWave3D*
• Renderman*

Community Projects are free third party open source DarkTree plugins developed using the DTE:

• Blender*
• Fusion*
• messiah:studio*
• Mental Ray* for:
• Maya
• XSI

 API

If you have a proprietary renderer or a 3D package we don’t already support, you can write your own Simbiont with our DarkTree Engine (DTE) API.