Putting YafRay to Work?

[JA-forreal]

Well that 200 meg was a bit "meaty" for reality don't you think? If you really want to setup YafRay for rendering insanely huge Blender stills and animations with really fast test renders there's a simple fuction in Yable. (BTW I have 3 computers at hand so my insane test renders didn't slow me down. So I guess I'm not too insane.) In reality most of my YafRay renders start as proxy renders.

First create simple "Proxy" objects for you stills and animations. Then put your real scene objects on another layer in Blender. You will render the Layer with the proxy objects then use those settings for your detailed objects later. In the Yable console press the "Layers" button. In the layers area select "all layers off" then select only the layers that you want Yable to export. Hit the back button. Export your xml and render the test. When your satisfied turn off the proxy layer in Blender and activate the detailed layer in Blender and Yable and assign all your materials in Yable if you haven't done this already. Export the stuff and sit back and await the Yafray render glory!

Or Get some rest, watch tv, get your other work done, bake a cake, read, take a day trip, etc.

[paradox]

Nice tip, good way to do test renders until you get what you want before doing the final full scene render. Thanks for sharing.
Paradox

[JA-forreal]

Your welcome. When YafRay gets integrated into Blender we can still use this "proxy render" method to speed things up. I use it for my Blender renders too.

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