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Maybe should change the "Image HDRI" to "Texture" since it does not have to be a source of light. Also Blender has Caustic Photons and Diffuse Photons checked by default. The "Background Light" and "Samples" was for sunsky so they don't belong at the top with ...

This is what the UI looks like in Blender. There are 2 versions of sun sky, not a sun sky and a moon sky. The people who wrote the renderer have the defaults for the lights and night all set to off. "Darktide Sunsky Sunsky is a background type that approximates the full spectrum of daylight...&...

Script that opens any node as a floating panel with opened panels organized from right to left. It has one issue in that if the node the panel was created from is deleted the floating panel remains. There are more options by setting connector values on the script node than shown below, but it can be...

trueBlue wrote: ↑26 Feb 2024, 15:24 New Previews look really good, minus the Shadows
Have you tried No Shadows?

Shadows could look better but I don't plan to spend the time to make previews perfect. They only exist to help plan the render.
Background panel don't check cast shadows to not have shadows.

HDRI background
Top previous render and d3d view preview
Bottom new render and new d3d view preview


This yafaray preview uses the HDRI to Lights script to generate shadow casting lights. This sample has 32 lights for the preview.

YafConstantPreview.jpg Constant background Top previous render and d3d view preview Bottom new render and new d3d view preview YafGradientPreview.jpg Gradient background Top previous render and d3d view preview Bottom new render and new d3d view preview The new previews use a collection of shadow c...

Feb 24 2024 New release, mostly improvements to shadows and bug fixes Nothing further is planned for this tool in the future. Changes: add filtering quality, filter size and sample count controls for shadows separate light distance control show/hide lights fixed bugs probe and shadows and clear imag...

I found out how to use the windows clipboard in script. The attach script will convert feet and inches to meters and will copy the result to the clipboard so it can be pasted elsewhere. The odd thing is you have to use 2 different objects when using the clipboard. The "InternetExplorer.Applicat...

YafExternalAnimViewer.jpg Doing the final big changes. Image shows a rendered animation in the DJV viewer. All the YafaRay rendering has been changed to a non-blocking run style. So you can continue to use tS while it renders. While rendering an animation there will be a button that can be pressed ...

Load the Bobby character and Render Error: ERR Source object: /Project/Space 3D/YafaRay4tS/ExportXML Error: Microsoft JScript runtime error Description: Invalid procedure call or argument Error code: 0x800a0005 - (null) Line: 41, Char: 3 Script text: arams.Param('bHandled') = true; YafActorsFixed.j...