yafray(1)

yafray1

Yet another free raytracer

Overview

yafray [options] file_to_render

Overview

YafRay is an advanced raytracing rendering systems that accepts an XML input file and produces an image output file based on its contents.

Options

-s strategy

Use strategy to render the scene, where strategy is either threaded (fork multiple threads, which is the default), mono (use a single thread and process), or fork (fork multiple processes). fork is not implemented yet.

-c N

Use N processes or threads (depends on the strategy), for operating on an SMP computer or cluster.

-r min_x:max_x:min_y:max_y

Render only part of the frame, values between -1 and 1. The whole image is -r -1:1:-1:1.

-z

Optimize for running on a cluster by gzipping some data passed between processes.

-p path

Set an alternative path for the plugins.

-v

Show the program version.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0

-p since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -s since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Author

This manual page was written by Nick Rusnov <[email protected]> for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

From yafray 0.0.9+dfsg-5 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.