YafRay 009 useful Links & Resources thread

[Samo]

Hi,

Similar to other forums, I think that I would be a good idea to have a thread about useful links & resources.

I'm going to include references to the Yafray wiki as well, the idea behind is to multiply links to those documents. I think that it is a good idea also to include references to generic documentation about raytracing, as well as links about photography and optics, papers about new researches, links to other interesting forums and to other Yafray tutorials and useful forum missages scattered all around the web (yafray forum included).

YafRay developers can join us as well and post links about their researches and other development questions. Anything you think is useful.


YAFRAY DOCS & TUTORIALS

Yafray Wiki, documents and tutorials:
http://wiki.yafray.org/bin/view.pl/UserDoc/WebHome

Yafray 008 Release Notes:
http://wiki.yafray.org/bin/view.pl/User ... seNotes008

YaFray Frequent Answers & Questions:
http://wiki.yafray.org/bin/view.pl/UserDoc/FaqEng

"Illuminating with YafRay" by Jandro:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Alejandro_Conty.450.0.html
There is an improved version of this document in the Tutorials
section, called YafRay Lighting:
http://wiki.yafray.org/bin/view.pl/User ... ayLighting

Yafray XML format specs (some parts might be outdated):
http://www.coala.uniovi.es/wiki/index.php/YafrayDoc

Yafray Docs in spanish language:
http://wiki.yafray.org/bin/view.pl/UserDocEs/WebHome

Introduction to YafRay in french, by Olivier Saraja:
http://www.editions-eyrolles.com/Chapit ... Saraja.pdf
http://www.editions-eyrolles.com/Livre/ ... ec-blender

Organic Modelling Tutorial - Portrait, by alt_ligury:
http://terrier.infographie.free.fr/work ... /index.htm french
http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Portrait english


OTHER YAFRAY RESOURCES
YafRay & Blender scenes repository:
http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1009

YafRay & Wings examples:
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/theoortcloud/wings3d.html
http://p212.ezboard.com/fnendowingsmira ... 1631.topic

Yaf(a)Ray (YafRay development branch):
http://wiki.yafray.org/bin/view.pl/UserDoc/YafaRay

YafRay & Yaf(a)Ray testing builds:
http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=976
http://www.blender.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=18
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=78097

Yamax (GMAX exporter) web page:
http://www.geocities.com/kam_b_lai/

Kam's YAFRay v0.0.8 Procedural Shader Reference:
http://www.geocities.com/kam_b_lai/tuto ... er_ref.htm

Blenderart Magazine:
http://www.blenderart.org/download.html
Some YafRay articles published, part. issue nº 3

Avariant's YafRay scenes composer (WIN):
http://www.avariant.byethost9.com/

Visual studio solution for compiling YafRay in Windows, by Avariant:
http://www.avariant.byethost9.com/

Crafter Material Creator, by Wybren van Keulen (sadly outdated, but it is GPL...):
http://www.funnyfarm.tv/3-lab/3-crafter/index.htm

Bagisas, a Yafray Gui For Linux And Windows, Wolfram 'Schlops' Kraus (sadly outdated too..)
http://www.fen-net.de/wolfram.kraus/Bagisas.html

Old YafRay Site:
http://old.yafray.org/



FORUMS & USEFUL THREADS

'only shadow' workaround:
http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=394

Refraction and reflection blur:
http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1634#1634

Multipass Rendering with YafRay:
http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58
http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=158

Showing console window (Mac users):
http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=70

Yafray FAQ for Wing users:
http://p212.ezboard.com/fnendowingsmiraifrm14



SPECIAL EFFECTS

Shaders Theory and examples:
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education ... cation.htm

Fresnel effect:
http://www.hash.com/am2004/Rendering/Fr ... 20Term.htm
http://www.3drender.com/glossary/fresneleffect.htm

Caustics:
http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/images/caustics.html
http://3drender.com/light/caustics.html

Refraction:
http://www.ps.missouri.edu/rickspage/re ... ction.html
http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Techni ... xList.html

Total Internal Reflection:
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/p ... 14l3b.html

Absorption:
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/p ... 12l2c.html

Dispersion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_(optics)
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hb ... rsion.html

Translucency and Sub-Surface Scattering
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education ... ucency.htm

Anisotropic effects and metal reflection:
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education ... lights.htm
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education ... so_ref.htm
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education ... d_refs.htm



LIGHTING

Books
http://www.3drender.com/light/index.html
http://www.andrew-whitehurst.net/graduates.html

Complete lighting overview:
http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm

3P lighting:
http://67.15.36.49/team/Tutorials/kory/koryslight1.asp
http://www.myholler.com/147online/handouts/lighting.pdf
http://67.15.36.49/team/Tutorials/Jenns ... ghting.asp

Daylight:
http://www.the123d.com/tutorial/c4d/daylight.shtml
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=154128



GLOBAL ILLUMINATION

Global Illumination:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_illumination

Ambient Oclussion:
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education ... lusion.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_occlusion



PHOTON MAPPING & RAYTRACER DEVELOPMENT

Photon Map Overview:
http://www.ypoart.com/tutorials/Photon-Overview.htm

Henrik Wann Jensen's homepage:
http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/

Jensen's papers about Photon mapping & other tech papers:
http://csnet.otago.ac.nz/cosc455/cg95.pdf
http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/papers/ewr7/egwr96.pdf
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~emmanuel/courses ... pping.html

Global Illumination Compendium
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~phil/GI/

Physically Based Rendering:
http://www.pbrt.org/



HDRI

HDRI overview & links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

OpenEXR
http://www.openexr.com/

Koshigaya OpenEXR Viewer 1.0
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=384590

[Claws]

Execellent compilation! I recognize some of the links from our releasenote work ^_^

[simpo]

Nice list of resources. Thanks.