YafRay

YafRay (acronym of Yet Another F ree RAY to trace ) is an engine of returned free synthesized images and free using the technique of the Lancer ray S.

It is distributed under license GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

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Yafray uses the method of the total Illumination to produce made realistic of scenes 3D.
It acts of a Free software which uses a format XML for the description of the scenes 3D.
It was recently integrated in the Modeleur 3D Blender.
It is optimized for the multiprocessors.
It makes it possible to carry out returned of type “skydome”.

Multi-platform

Yafray completely was developed in C++ and thus has a very great portability on various environments. One thus finds it on GNU/Linux, Windows 9x/XP/2000, Mac OS X and Irix. It is an engine of made independent which can be used scripts since or directly in line of order.

Moreover, it is also able to manage the parallel Calcul and the Calcul distributed.

Structure

Yafray has an extremely modular architecture, with the various elements of returned coming to be grafted with a core: charger of scene, lights and materials. It thus has a API external allowing the connection of any other software or continuation 3D.

One finds already the integration of Yafray in various applications such as Blender, Wings 3D or Aztec.

Development

At present, the development of Yafray is stopped by the principal developer which decided to concentrate on a complete rewriting of the core.

Indeed, with time and the successive modifications, it became increasingly difficult to integrate new technologies without major change. Thus rather than to make the code unstable, the developers concentrated on the rewriting with zero of the engine. This project is named Yaf (A) Ray.

See too

POV-Ray, another engine of returned by launched ray, whose sources are diponible but not freely redistribuables.

External bonds

Official site

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