Eckhard M. Jäger

Blender 2.48 & Yaf(a)ray 0.1.0

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:19:16 PM

rendering, features, 3d, game, open, blender, movie, development

Whoo-Hoo - Blender 2.48 is available and it comes with a lot of amazing features. Again a stunning release of the open source 3d suite. Check out the release logs of Blender 2.48:
* Improved real-time GLSL materials
* Grease pencil (sketch annotations)
* Better animation tools
* Improved Game Logic (thanx to the Apricot Opengame Project)
* Updated Bullet physics library
* Sun, sky & atmosphere renderer
* Colored shadows
* Great additions to the builtin Python editor
* Fluid simulation can be controlled using particles
and much, much more...
Hopefully the Blender Nurbs Project can collect enough donations so we get nice NURBS in Blender soon too.
Besides that the GI renderer Yafray is back from death and released as Yaf(a)ray 0.1.0 (which is the successor of Yafray 0.0.9). This version is rewritten from scratch. After two years of development, it already features a complete set of lighting and rendering options. Yaf(a)Ray 0.1.0 is a perfect addition to Blender.
UPDATE:
You can grab an DEB archive of Blender 2.48 for Ubuntu at GetDeb.net.

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Comments

Unregistered user # Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:53:37 PM

Anonymous writes: Yes nice but the new Yafray 0.1.0 and Python 2.6 dont working anymore with Blender 2.48. Yafray couldnt find the registry key and Python is not installed, so nice i have python 2.6 installed . That was probably nothing !

Unregistered user # Friday, October 17, 2008 11:29:38 PM

Anonymous writes: same here...

Unregistered user # Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:42:18 PM

Anonymous writes: yep same stuff!

GwenDragon # Tuesday, November 4, 2008 9:01:40 AM

You have to install Python 2.5.2 because Blender 2.48a is compiled for with this version!

I have the same problem with yafraray 0.1.0 under Windows complaining about missing Yafray registry key.
And the path to yafaray should be in your systems path.
Adding a registry key for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Yafray Team\Yafaray\InstallDir with the value of yafarays installdir does work.
But in this case blender calls the old yafray.exe wich is missing in yafaray. Duplicating yafaray-xml.exe als yafray.exe does not work and carshes yafaray.

The new yafaray seems to be incomaptible with current blender.

Unregistered user # Monday, November 10, 2008 12:22:00 PM

Anonymous writes: Hello guys, I would like to ask how to install new yafaray on ubuntu 64. I have new blender 2.48 instaled from deb and the same i did with yafaray and I put all the python scripts into scripts folder so i can find yafaray exporter in blender but when i try to run it it crashes with this message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/dalibor/.blender/scripts/blender/yafaray_ui.py", line 25, in <module> import yaf_export ImportError: No module named yaf_export any idea? thankx

Unregistered user # Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:01:48 PM

Giorgio writes: Hello, ppl having this problem under Linux Ubuntu: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/xxxxxx/.blender/scripts/blender/yafaray_ui.py", line 25, in <module> import yaf_export ImportError: No module named yaf_export Copy all the scripts to /usr/share/blender/scripts/blender Make sure you have libqt4 and libqt4 dev installed. Make also sure, you have _yafqt.so and _yafrayinterface.so inside the /usr/share/blender/scripts/blender directory. If you dont have these 2 files, you need to compile yourself. Just follow these instructions: http://www.yafaray.org/development/build Actually theres no need to compile the entire software, just the Python Bindings.(Qt support) Then start blender, and set the python scripts path to /usr/share/blender/scripts/blender Hope it helps

Unregistered user # Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:08:21 PM

Giorgio writes: Just to add, that the user-config.py, mentioned in the compiling yafaray doc, is inside of /home/xxxxxxx/yafaray/config. Its called linux2-config.py Thats after you have downloaded the yafaray source with svn. Cheers

Unregistered user # Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:34:56 PM

wes writes: I just installed yafAray 0.1.0.315 under Blender 2.48a. Had a heck of a time, since I had installed Python 2._6_ earlier to do some Maya and xsi scripting. Apparently, Blender 2.48 was built in Python 2._5_, so when I installed yafaray, some things weren't set up correctly. Blender would complain without Py2.5 but "continue happily". Yafaray would throw an error to the console. I installed python 2.5 and even set the "installDir" registry key for yafaray. Still no joy. Re-installing yafaray _after_ installing Python 2.5 solved the problem, since the yafaray installation seemed to rely on the presence of python 2.5 to properly set things up. Hope this might save some others a little time if they go down the same road that I did. :)