YafRay 0.0.9 review
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YafRay is a powerful raytracer, under the LGPL license. It enables you to create fantastic images and animations of a photorealistic quality. Below can you find the most relevant features which YafRay offers.
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!
What's New:
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
Requirements:
requires Blender
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