We have released a beta version of YafaRay 0.1.2, packed with lots of new features. Please help us to test it. We are also looking forward to your help to build YafaRay under different platforms and OS.

In this forum thread you can download it, find the list of new features of this release and report your bugs and suggestions to improve it. Thank you for using YafaRay!

The YafaRay Team.

Exvion has created an exporter to render Google SketchUp scenes with YafaRay. SketchUp is a 3D modeling program specially designed for architects, civil engineers, filmmakers, game developers, and related professions. It also includes features to facilitate the placement of models in Google Earth. It is designed to be easier to use than other 3D CAD programs.

From the 14th. of Juny till the 31st. of July, YafaRay users are encouraged to create a stunning image for our popular Annual Contest. The topic this year is Abandoned Classics.

We are pleased to annonce the list of students whose proposals are going to be implemented in YafaRay during this summer, as part of the Google Summer of Code program:

We are pleased to announce that the YafaRay project has been accepted as mentoring organisation in Google Summer of Code 2010:

http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/yafaray

Tase has posted a detailed tutorial in the Tutorials Section about his camera mappin technique, which mixes YafaRay renders with real pictures. Tase has been able to produce really good images with this technique. You can see some of his renders in this forum thread. Read the tutorial in the link below:

The YafaRay Project and Software in the Public Interest (SPI) are pleased to announce an agreement to place Yafaray under the SPI umbrella as an associated project. SPI is an non-profit organization which was founded to help projects develop and distribute free open source software and hardware. SPI sponsors renowned projects like Debian, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL and others:

http://www.spi-inc.org/

Samo writes:

This is the material support of the Crash Course on YafaRay I did three weeks ago in Murcia, Spain.