YafaRay


YafaRay is a free and open-source ray tracing program that uses an XML scene description language. There is a YafaRay addon for Blender 2.78. The ray tracer is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

History

YafaRay's predecessor, YafRay, was written by Alejandro Conty Estévez, and was first released in July 2002. The last version of that program was 0.0.9, which was released in 2006.
Due to limitations of the original software design, the YafRay raytracer was completely rewritten by Mathias Wein. The first stable version of the new raytracer, given the name YafaRay 0.1.0, was released in October 2008. The latest stable version is 3.4.1 released in 2020.

Features

Rendering

;Global illumination
;Skydome illumination
;Caustics
;Depth of field
;Blurry reflections

Architecture

;Modular framework
;Cross-platform