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YafaRay Students in Google Summer of Code

boiko — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:49:10 +0000

So, YafaRay is participating in this year’s Summer of Code . We are pleased to annonce the list of students whose proposals are going to be implemented in YafaRay during this summer:

Blender 2.5 Integration by Shuvro Sarker.
SubSurface Scattering by Yong Li.
Irradiance Caching by George Laskowsky.
Exporter plug-in for Maya by Wang Peijun.
Progressive Photon Mapping by Rui Li.
Microrendering for Scalable Final Gathering Istvan Szakats.
Network rendering tools by Andrew Price.

Congratulations to all students!

III YafaRay Annual Contest – Crazy Machines – Winner announced

boiko — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:47:28 +0000

From July 13rd to August 17th the YafaRay team was running a rendering contest on the subject “Crazy Machines”. The participants were asked to create imaginary machines that are crazy (in any sense the participant imagined).

We have gotten many entries (which can be seen in the forum thread) and the winners were announced today. Here are the images for your delight:

Winner of the III Yafaray Annual Contest is Xelptic

2nd Position for Gabich

3rd. position for Mookie

Congratulations to the winners and thanks for everybody who partipated in the contest!

Yafaray using Qt

boiko — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:15:33 +0000

Yafaray is the development version of the open source rendering suit Yafray. The code structure has been totally reviewed and it has gained many new features.

Some time ago I have written an experimental Qt GUI for it (yafaray-qt) which was already fully functional (allowing for loading XML scene and saving them to the image formats supported by Qt itself). Some weeks ago this interface became the official yafaray UI (even if using it as a blender plugin):

yafaray GUI

It is very basic for now, but it does its job already. There are plans for adding more stuff on it, but for now it will stay like that for awhile.

As soon as Mandriva Cooker reopens for development I’ll create a package for yafaray and make it available for testing. For those interested in trying it before that, here is the announcement.