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YafRay 0.0.9 Released

  Published by Eugene (etr9j) on July 18th, 2006 in 3D News

splash_009.pngFor those new to Blender, YafRay is a free, open source ray tracing program integrated into Blender.  There has been lots of talk about where YafRay was headed (due to the slow development in the past months), but I think this release shows that YafRay is certainly not dead.

From the YafRay site:

Blender 2.42 is out and YafRay needed to be updated for working with it. So we have new YafRay release, about a year later of 0.0.8 version. In fact, this is a maintenance release with few (but important) changes. Greatest change is the project manager ;-) because Mathias Wein, a.k.a. Lynx, is at the head of YafRay development. Good luck, Lynx and thank you for getting involved in this insane project!

Here is a 0.0.9 changelog:

  • New SAH-kdtree for mesh objects, which is hopefully mature now. Improvements include: Smaller memory footprint, more robust traversal (so holes in meshes should be history), faster ray-scene-intersection (depending on scene) due to new building algorithm (surface area heuristic and triangle clipping, preparing scene can take a bit longer though)
  • Image loading code is more careful when trying to load files with unknown extension (crash-fixes)
  • Added -p command line option for Linux to specify an alternative plugin path when rendering XML (yafray executable), YafRay also prints used plugin path and number of plugins loaded to console now.
  • Changing number of threads with blender plugin now takes effect without restarting blender (blender 2.42 and later only)
  • Fixed some minor bugs, code cleanups/updates for newer compilers and build-environments

Remember, in order to use Yafray in Blender, YafRay needs to be installed on your system.  You can find multi-platform installers here.  And you can be sure that 64-bit versions will show up on graphicall.



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  1. 1 madman Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 2:26 pm

    Good!
    Downloading… :D

  2. 2 epat Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    ooh - maybe it's coming back from the grave after all…

  3. 3 applegrew Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    At last! Downloading. :D

  4. 4 Seattle Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    Great news! Back from the dead :)
    Must download! Must download!

  5. 5 Seattle Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 5:22 pm

    This week was awesome..new Blender and new Yafray!

  6. 6 Simon Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 6:10 pm

    - wow -

  7. 7 bart Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 7:20 pm

    This is great news. Excellent work, guys!

  8. 8 simhar Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 8:21 pm

    yafray is strong, no question; but, in fact, most people don't even take all from the blender-internal rendering engine… and look, what ed can look like: blender internal!
    a problem, which should be solved: the native integration of yafray into the comp-nodes…

  9. 9 Tynach Edit Link Jul 18th, 2006 at 10:11 pm

    YAY!!!

    My only complaint is that the spash screen has low AA samples, making the DoF ugly… As soon as my computer is up and running I will definitly give this a try!

    I was wondering what it meant by updating Yafray…

  10. 10 Kyle Dell'Aquila Edit Link Jul 19th, 2006 at 12:51 am

    yay! awsome yafray version is out!

    But I cant wait till some one does SSS rendering options intergrated into blender,

    If I only rendered my dominoes with yafray.. :C (did it a while ago, used indigo instead)
    http://static.flickr.com/50/137114054_7c001abb12_o.jpg

  11. 11 OBI_Ron Edit Link Jul 19th, 2006 at 1:01 am

    Thanks for the update, and for all the effort you put into this wonderful program!!!

  12. 12 crsrma Edit Link Jul 19th, 2006 at 9:24 am

    Spiffy, seems to even render hair type particles. I think that's new..?

  13. 13 VINDICATORs Edit Link Jul 20th, 2006 at 4:47 pm

    Vraiment bien ce couple blender2.42/yafray 0.0.9 :) ça m'affiche enfin quelque chose sans me prendre la tête :)

    Really well this couple blender2.42/yafray 0.0.9:) that posts me
    finally something without me to take the head:)

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