YafaRay add-on For Blender 2.62

Where can I find the add-on?

The YafaRay add-on for Blender 2.62 is maintained by Gabriele Ferreri at http://www.graphicall.org/megasoft78. Builds are updated quite often, so please check Gabriele's page regularly.

Which version should I use?

YafaRay comes into two flavours, 0.1.2 Beta 4 and 0.1.3 Experimental.

0.1.2 Beta 4 means that the core features work and the engine is quite stable. You will not run into random crashes for instance. However, there are still some well identified bugs pending to be fixed and some of them can lead to a Blender crash. They are related to very specific features such as blending of blend materials, some cases of particles rendering and lens shift. There are also memory issues related to textures management, but you are not likely to run into problems unless you are rendering an animation with medium to heavy texturing. This issue happens in YafaRay 0.1.1 - Blender 2.49 too. If you are going to work with YafaRay core features on still renders, this is the recommended version to use. If you run into problems, please revert to the YafaRay 0.1.1 - Blender 2.49 release.

The 0.1.3 Experimental version includes 3 projects developed by students during the GSoC 2010 program, which are Irradiance Cache, GPU accelerated Final Gather rendering and a photons-based SSS shader. These projects are at a very early stage of optimisation and refinement. Use Experimental only for testing purposes.

YafaRay is released on 6 platforms, which are:

• Windows 32/64. It requires XP/Vista/7.
• Linux 32/64. It should suit most recent Linux distributions.
• Mac OSX Intel 32/64.

How does the add-on is installed?

The add-on is installed from Blender, using 'Install Add-on' button in Addon section, Blender User Preferences window (Ctrl Alt U). In the link below you will find a video about the installation:
http://vimeo.com/yafaray/yafaray-installation

How can I upgrade the add-on?

If you have a previous version of the add-on installed and you want to upgrade, just be sure the Overwrite tickbox is enabled in the files browser when you select the zip file of the new version.

YafaRay 0.1.2 Beta 2 for Autodesk Softimage XSI.

The YafaRay add-on for Autodesk Softimage XSI is maintained by Pedro Alcaide at http://github.com/povmaniaco/YafaRayforXSI
Downloads page: http://github.com/povmaniaco/YafaRayforXSI/downloads
Please read these installation notes before installing.

YafaRay 0.1.2 Beta 2 for MakeHuman 1.0 (Nightly versions)

The YafaRay add-on for Makehuman is maintained by Pedro Alcaide at http://github.com/povmaniaco/YafaRayforMakeHuman 
Downloads page: http://github.com/povmaniaco/YafaRayforMakeHuman/downloads
Please read these installation guide before installing.

YafaRay 0.1.1 Stable for Blender 2.49b

Please read these installation notes before installing. Use the forum if you have any issues about installing YafaRay.

Operating System	Download	Release Notes	Filetype	Size	Version
Windows 32 bits	YafaRay 0.1.1 - Python 2.6 for Blender 2.49 built with Python 2.6	0.1.1	exe Installer	6.0 MB	0.1.1
Notes for Win32: YafaRay 0.1.1 does not work with the Blender 2.6x series. YafaRay 0.1.1 needs Python 2.6.6 installed. It will only work with Blender 2.49 compiled with Python 2.6. In Windows 64 bits systems, YafaRay 0.1.1 should be used with Windows 32 bits versions of Blender 2.49 and Python 2.6. Read these notes if you experience any problem.
Mac OS X Intel 10.5	YafaRay 0.1.1 - Python 2.5.1 Apple (Thanks to Jens Verwiebe)	0.1.1	zip Installer	10.7 MB	0.1.1
Notes for Mac OSX: This YafaRay version is compiled against Python 2.5.1-Apple, the pre-installed one! Don't install any other Python versions. Make sure you use a Blender 2.49 - Mac OS X version compiled with Python 2.5. Important: read the OSX installation notes (included in the zip file as well).
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) 32 bits	YafaRay 0.1.1 - Python 2.6 (Thanks to Paulo Gomes)	0.1.1	deb package	1.0 MB	0.1.1
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) 64 bits	YafaRay 0.1.1 - Python 2.6 (Thanks to Paulo Gomes)	0.1.1	deb package	1.0 MB	0.1.1
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) 64 bits	YafaRay 0.1.1 - Python 2.6 (Thanks to Paulo Gomes)	0.1.1	deb package	1.0 MB	0.1.1
Sources	YafaRay	0.1.1	zip file	530 KB	0.1.1
	Blender 2.49 export scripts	0.0.1	zip file	38 KB	0.1.1
	For installing YafaRay from sources, please read this page.

Yafaray License

YafaRay is released unce the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1. For more information go to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

YafaRay Support.

It is recommended that you read the existing documentation about YafaRay. Reading the available documentation is the better and faster 'algorithm' you can ever use for your renders. A first superficial reading will give you a lot of clues about how YafaRay works. The main learning resources and support tools in the YafaRay site are:

• User Guide.
• Quick Start notes.
• Tutorials.
• Examples.
• YafaRay Chat Room.
• YafaRay Forum.

Want binaries? Help us!

Platform maintaners and builds are required for these and for other yet not available operating systems. Please use this section of the forum to share your own builds or to ask about binary building.

YafaRay logo. The YafaRay logo was created by Javier Galán in 2005. You can use it for YafaRay related activities like linking and reviews. You can use it as well to credit YafaRay in your rendering works. The YafaRay logo is available in SVG format here.

YafRay 0.0.9 sources.

The last YafRay release was the 0.0.9 version in Summer 2006. Notice that these sources aren't under development anymore. You can dowload them from here.