YafaRay

YafaRay is an open source ray tracing program available under the LGPL license. It supersedes YafaRay (Yet Another Free Raytracer). It enables the creation of images and animations to a photo-realistic quality.

Example render of a camera made with YafRay.

YafaRay

A guide to the open source Ray Tracer.

Yafaray was developed in C++ and can be ported to a number of operating systems including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.

It has a number of rendering features including: global illumination, skydome illumination, caustics, depth of field and blurry reflections.

Contents

• User Manual
• Scenes with Explanations
• How do I add my own scene?
• Simple Preview

Further reading

• Yafaray at the FSF directory
• libYafaRay on GitHub