www.elysiun.com/~roel/blenderbuilds/bf-blender_windows_20040105.zip

This build is built with MSVC, Quicktime, International support and OpenAL support is enabled. Gameengine is not available.

new stuff:

- first step of Yafray integration.
> press Yafray in the rendersettings
> add GI options in the new yafray GI panel
> press render

For this to work you have to have the new 0.0.6 yafray available at www.yafray.org
In the filepaths you can set the default directory to save yafray XML files to.

Roel

ps. stole half of jesterkings post for this, I'm evil

Blender can't find the Yafray Path. The Extractor script finds the Yafray Path. Am I setting up the Yafray path right for the New Blender/Yafray render setup correctly? I followed the steps that you mentioned.

Does anyone happen to know if the yafray integration has a way of handling UV image mapping yet?

Make sure you add yafray to your path. With the installation file comes a readme.txt with instructions of how to set your PATH environment variable correctly.

YAFRAY_DIR in that document has to be replaced with the directory you installed yafray to.

/jesterKing

you did a great job! does the plugin support reflections too?

With regards to yafray/blender and current supported options:
http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2669

no plugin is used yet, it is only temporary xml export.

I still getting "'yafray' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Could not execute yafray. Is it in path?"

Yes it is in PATH -;g:\yafray\yafray.exe -

I thought that we could now run Yafray form any drive or dir of our choosing. Do I have to go back to installing Yafary on drive C:\Yafray?

The python versions of yafray exporters have no trouble finding Yafray without the path variable on my Windows 2000 systems.

Is something wrong with my windows path variable structure or is their some other setting that is not stated that I should know?

Thanks for your help.

I still getting "'yafray' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Could not execute yafray. Is it in path?"

Yes it is in PATH -;g:\yafray\yafray.exe -

I thought that we could now run Yafray form any drive or dir of our choosing. Do I have to go back to installing Yafary on drive C:\Yafray?

The python versions of yafray exporters have no trouble finding Yafray without the path variable on my Windows 2000 systems.

Is something wrong with my windows path variable structure or is their some other setting that is not stated that I should know?

Thanks for your help.

I'm still getting, 'yafray' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Could not execute yafray. Is it in path?"

Yes it is in PATH -;g:\yafray\yafray.exe -

I thought that we could now run Yafray form any drive or dir of our choosing. Do I have to go back to installing Yafray on drive C:\Yafray?

The python versions of yafray exporters have no trouble finding Yafray without the path variable on my Windows 2000 systems.

Is something wrong with my windows path variable structure or is their some other setting that is not stated that I should know?

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by JA-forreal on Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:36 pm; edited 1 time in total

win98 here, installed in c:\yafray, failed before and after adding to path (and rebooting). I have a subdir c:\yafray\blender and yafray is working from the cmd line in that directory. In the blender file paths I have "\yafray\blender\" but still no luck.

in XP i had to set the path to ";d:\graphics\YafRay\;YAFRAY_DIR" to get it to work. it seems to be working spendidly.

I was installed yafray in the same directory as Blender and now work nice.
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JA-forreal:
You have set the path in in YFexportdir in the userdefault window in Blender?
The system path is not used at all, it doesn't matter to the export, only to yafray.

dmoc wrote:

win98 here, installed in c:\yafray, failed before and after adding to path (and rebooting). I have a subdir c:\yafray\blender and yafray is working from the cmd line in that directory. In the blender file paths I have "\yafray\blender\" but still no luck.

The path should be the full path to the yafray temporary export directory, but probably without the end slash (which could cause problems) so in your case something like 'c:\yafray\blender'.

This can be editted in the code though, I can imagine this will confuse some others as well.

Again, keep in mind that this was only testing code, it wasn't meant to be released yet, it was only tested on Linux sofar. I only released the code because of all the delays I had last year, and didn't want to keep the developers waiting any longer, which might have caused problems keeping up with the constant changes eventually.

JA-forreal
"I'm still getting, 'yafray' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Could not execute yafray. Is it in path?"

Yes it is in PATH -;g:\yafray\yafray.exe -"

try taking out the \yafray.exe bit, all I aded to my path was ;c:\yafray, also this 006 ersion of yafray makes a folder called "YafRay" not "yafray".

hope it helps mate, I spent ages trying to get it to work, only to find Yafray don't like spaces in folder names

Ken

I'm a newbie to this stuff but I notice yafray save path had a "//" in it processing the YBtest.xml. So I opened up the xml and found this line at the bottom...

Code:

<outfile value="\yafray\blender\\YBtest.tga" />

I am waiting for another test to finish and will run again with an edited path. Update soon.

Edit: OK, made the following manual edits (dims and aa only reduced to save time) and success. So prob is the path (on w98 at least). Now to try blender again.

Code:

<camera name="MAINCAM" resx="160" resy="120" focal="1.093750" >    <from x="0.000000" y="-8.614471" z="1.812984" />    <to x="0.000000" y="-7.664184" z="1.501609" />    <up x="0.000000" y="-8.303098" z="2.763271" /> </camera> <render camera_name="MAINCAM"    raydepth="3" gamma="1.500000" exposure="0.000000"    AA_passes="1" AA_minsamples="1"    background_name="world_background"    AA_pixelwidth="2" AA_threshold="0.06" bias="0.0001" >    <outfile value="c:\yafray\blender\YBtest.tga" /> </render> </scene>

Edit: yeah... changed yaf path in blender to "/yafray/blender" and it works!