YafaRay
Posted by Allan Brito on April 10th, 2013 ~
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The gothic architecture is not a very common subject for architectural visualization these days, unless you work with some kind of restoration. But, if you want to take a look on an example of visualization inspired by gothic architecture made with Blender, just take a few minutes to check out…
Posted by Allan Brito on April 1st, 2013 ~
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The textures of a scene play a big role on any architectural visualization project to add both context and realism. But, is there a right way to setup textures? Some people uses a mix of handcrafted UV Maps and polygons to improve details, others go only with UV Maps. I…
Posted by Allan Brito on March 19th, 2013 ~
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The use of YafaRay among architectural visualization artists is decreasing since the release of Blender Cycles, but I can easily say that with YafaRay we can still create some incredible and realistic scenes. And since YafaRay is much older than Cycles, you will also find lots of guides and tutorials…
Posted by Allan Brito on February 25th, 2013 ~
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In architectural visualization we often get little time to produce great renders, and despite the short deadline, most artists usually find a way to get the job done. But, how many of us would find time to finish a project and work on a bonus image for a client? Apparently…
Posted by Allan Brito on January 18th, 2013 ~
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The amount of details of an interior visualization projects can easily become a challenge for any artist, especially when it comes to render things like carpets. How do you render carpets with Blender? Well, an artist called Paulina posted some really nice renders of a living room at the YafaRay…
Posted by Allan Brito on November 26th, 2012 ~
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Just like I usually comment here on Blender 3D Architect, I still caught myself trying to plan a scene to render with YafaRay. After a long period of time using a renderer like YafaRay, it may become difficult let go some of those old habits. It’s been quite a while…
Posted by Allan Brito on November 8th, 2012 ~
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Another nice example of how YafaRay artists can produce quality architectural visualization with Blender, even without stable releases for the Blender 2.6x series. To use YafaRay with Blender today, you must download a custom build from graphicall.org, which is the easy way to get YafaRay working with Blender. An artist…
Posted by Allan Brito on October 9th, 2012 ~
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One of the first external renderers to work with Blender was the old YafRay, which in my case was one of the reasons for me to start modeling architecture in Blender, to render my projects with YafRay. The next generation of YafRay is called YafaRay and today it is still…