Reunited with YafRay
I just randomly re-found-out about YafRay as an external rendering option with Blender when I remembered something about the fact that YafRay can render caustics.
Unfortunately YafRay gives huge rendering times. For example today I rendered a scene with full GI with caustics and it took like almost an hour. I also found out that YafRay can do DOF.
I’m currently rendering a fluid simulation in Blender using YafRay with Medium quality GI. I decided not to try and use caustics as this would definately make render times shoot up! Currently it’s rendering at about 2.5 mins per frame or so.
UPDATE: I’ve now uploaded the video to Google videos:
Composite Test
I’ve just completed a simple composite test of a shuttlepod hovering above the sea. Basically I was just trying to get the reflections right, so the lighting on the ship isn’t so good (plus I still haven’t got around to properly learning how to do good lighting).
(Click on the image to enlarge)
Shuttle Model:
http://www.blenderwars.com/popup.php?mod=travelpod
Original Modeler – Matthew Parker
Converted by – Rashid Al-Marri
