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YafaRay
{{Infobox software
| name = YafaRay
| logo =
| screenshot = Engine movingparts.jpg
| caption = A YafaRay rendering of [[piston engine]] parts modelled in [[Blender (software)|Blender]]
| developer = YafaRay developers
| latest_release_version = 0.1.53.2.0
| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|20137|05|13|21}}
| programming language   = [[C++]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
| operating_system = <!--OS-independent-->
| platform = [[Blender (software)|Blender]]
| genre = [[Raytracer]], [[plug-in (computing)|plug-in]]
| license = [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]]
| website = {{URL|yafaray.org}}
}}

'''YafaRay''' is a [[free software|free]], [[open source]] [[Ray tracing (graphics)|ray tracing]] program that uses an [[XML]] scene description language. It has been integrated intoan addon for the 2.4978 version of the 3D modelling software [[Blender (software)|Blender]], but required an exporter for the redesigned 2.5 version of Blender. It now has an addon to integrate it into blender 2.73. 

It is licensed under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]] (LGPL).

==History==

YafaRay's predecessor '''YafRay''' ('''Y'''et '''A'''nother '''F'''ree '''Ray'''tracer) was written by Alejandro Conty Estévez, and was first released in July 2002. The last version of YafRay was YafRay 0.0.9, released in 2006. Due to limitations of the original desig(contracted; show full)

;Cross-platform
:YafaRay has been fully developed using [[C++]]. This makes for good portability and there are precompiled [[binaries]] for the most common platforms: [[GNU]]/[[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] 
9x/2000/XP/7/8.1, [[Mac OS X]] and [[Irixand [[Mac OS X]]. YafaRay can be used as a stand-alone render engine, using its own scene description format. This way it can be used from the [[command line]] directly, by a script, etc. There are also provisions for [[parallel computing|parallel]] or [[Distributed computing|distributed]] rendering.

==See also==
{{Portal|Free software}}

* [[POV-Ray]], another popular, gratis ray tracer.
* [[LuxRender]], an unbiased rendering system
* [[Kerkythea]], a freeware rendering program that supports raytracing

==External links==
{{Commons category|YafaRay}}
* {{Official website|http://www.yafaray.org/}}
* [https://github.com/YafaRay Source code]
* [http://yafaray.manojky.net/legacy/index_Rate.php Material Library]
* [http://yafaray.manojky.net Material Search]

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{{Software in the Public Interest}}

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[[Category:Free software programmed in C++]]
[[Category:Global illumination software]]
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