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Una prima lettura veloce della guida vi darà molte informazioni sul funzionamento di YafaRay. Successivamente potrete rileggerla interamente con più attenzione o saltare direttamente al paragrafo che più vi interessa. La Guida Utente è suddivisa in 11 sezioni principali, che sono:

• Installazione e Workflow. Workflow generico ed istruzioni di installazione per diversi sistemi operativi.
  • Requisiti per l'utente.
  • Istruzioni generali per l'uso.
  • Note relative all'installazione su Windows.
  • Note relative all'installazione su OSX di YafaRay 0.1.1.
  • Pacchetti Debian per Ubuntu.
• What is YafaRay? Short introduction to the YafaRay engine, history and a complete list of features.
  • What YafaRay is.
  • YafaRay Features.
  • Project History.
• Render Output. Options to launch render, and settings available in the Render Output Window.
  • YafaRay settings UI introduction and Render Buttons.
  • Render Output Windows Introduction.
    

    Blender render settings supported.

    Render Windows Settings.

    Saving EXR renders.

• Objects, Lights and Camera settings. Parameters to setup light sources and cameras.
  • Object, Lights, and Camera settings introduction.
  • Object (meshlight).
  • Lights.
    

    Point and Sphere.

    Directional and Sun.

    Area.

    Spot

  • Camera settings.
    

    Architect / DOF.

    Angular.

    Orthogonal.

    Perspective / DOF.

• Texture Input. Texture input, mapping coordinates, blending modes, stencil and procedurals.
  • Texture mapping introduction.
  • Image Texture Input.
  • Object Mapping.
  • Stencil.
  • Blending modes.
  • Procedural textures.
• Materials. YafaRay materials explained.
  • Multimaterial.
  • Material Settings.
  • Material Preview.
  • Glass.
  • Glossy.
  • Coated Glossy
  • ShinyDiffuse.
  • Blend Material.
• Material Modulation. Modulation of materials properties with textures.
  • Material Modulation introduction.
  • Diffuse color.
  • Specular color.
  • Specular intensity.
  • Alpha intensity.
  • Bump intensity.
  • Displacement mapping.
  • Blend mapping.
• Lighting Methods. Lighting methods explained and use cases.
  • Illumination Types.
  • Lighting Methods Overview.
  • Use cases.
    

    Open scenes

    Enclosed scenes

    Animations

  • Parameters.
    

    Ambient Occlusion.

    Caustic Photon Map.

    Path tracing.

    Photon Mapping.

    Final Gather.

    Bidirectional.

• Render Settings. General rendering parameters and Anti-aliasing settings.
  • General settings.
    

    Ray Depth.

    Shadow Depth and Transparent shadows.

    Output Gamma.

    Input Gamma.

    Clamp RGB.

    Clay Render.

    Threads.

    Result to Blender.

    Autosave.

    Alpha on autosave/animations.

    Draw render parameters.

    Output to XML.

  • Anti-aliasing.
    

    Introduction.

    First anti-aliasing pass.

    Adaptive sampling.

    Filter type.

    Filter Size.

    Anti-aliasing strategy.

• Background Settings. Background types and parameters.
  • How backgrounds work.
  • Single Color.
  • Gradient.
  • Texture.
  • Darktide Sunsky.
  • Sunsky.
• Volumetrics. Volumetric effects in YafaRay.
  • Introduction to volumetrics.
  • The Basics.
    

    Workflow.

    Volume types.

  • Volume Integrator.
    

    Step Size.

    Other Volume Integrator Settings.

    Examples.

  • Volume Regions.
    

    Volume Region tips.

    Absorption and Scattering.

    Examples.

  • Volume Region Types.
    

    UniformVolume

    ExpdensityVolume

    Example

    NoiseVolume

    NoiseVolume Settings

    The NoiseVolume Texture