Yaf(a)Ray4tS v0.6.0 released!

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Post by Jack Edwards // Feb 13, 2009, 11:22pm

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Public beta has just been released for Yaf(a)Ray4tS v0.6.0. It is an exporter script that lets you render your tS work via the Yaf(a)Ray 1.0 render engine.

You can download it here:
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=7782

Don't forget that you need to download and install the Yaf(a)Ray render engine first:
http://www.yafaray.org/download/yafaray

Enjoy, post renders and let us know if you encounter any problems.

Post by Jack Edwards // Feb 13, 2009, 11:31pm

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Whupps. I attached the wrong file at first. Make sure you guys downloaded the exe installer version. :o

Post by v3rd3 // Feb 14, 2009, 12:43am

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Thank you so much.:banana:

Post by Vizu // Feb 14, 2009, 2:57am

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i got a problem (maybe i do somewhat wrong)


Can anyone of the german guys here translate the isntall instruction to german for me ?


Here my Problem screenshot. http://www.wire-frame.de/yafray.jpg

Post by prodigy // Feb 14, 2009, 3:12am

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are you working on model side? :confused:

1) do you set where is yafaray installed?
2) do you have a c:\Temp folder?

Post by Vizu // Feb 14, 2009, 3:18am

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Prodigy


Yes i have the Temp folder (you can see the folder in the screenshot on the right side.


How do i set where yafray is istalled ?

and yes i am on the modeler side

Post by Tiles // Feb 14, 2009, 3:21am

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Vizu, Yafaray ist Workspace Only.


Hast du überhaupt schon Yafaray installiert? Das muss man extra installieren.


Don't forget that you need to download and install the Yaf(a)Ray render engine first:

http://www.yafaray.org/download/yafaray


1) do you set where is yafaray installed?

2) do you have a c:\Temp folder?


Hast du den Installationspfad von Yafray angegeben?

Hast du unter C einen Temp Ordner angelegt?

Post by prodigy // Feb 14, 2009, 3:28am

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Right click on the Yafaray scene script installer or change the default panel to directories, on you yafaray script...
But. errr if you run the yafaray is becaues your install path is correct..

MMM maybe the problem is modelside, not sure..

Post by Vizu // Feb 14, 2009, 3:29am

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Tiles yes :)


Ah now i have it. The dosbox create many command lines but will stop with the message C:\Programme\YafaRay>Copy /y c:\Temp\yafaray.tga c:\Temp\Yaf_render.cmd


The system coudn´t find the file.


Press any key to continue

Post by Tiles // Feb 14, 2009, 3:31am

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I got your error messages the first time i have installed it. I needed to rechoose the installation path. Then it worked to render :)

Problem is that it installs with the path that contains the word Program files instead Programme. Which gives an invalid path for us german users then ...

Post by prodigy // Feb 14, 2009, 3:36am

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I tried to use the script from modelside but nup.. it doesn't work for me..
I suggest try it on workspace side bridge off

Post by Vizu // Feb 14, 2009, 3:39am

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http://www.wire-frame.de/dos.jpg


Sind das 2 unterschiedliche Fenster bei dir tiles ?

Post by Tiles // Feb 14, 2009, 3:54am

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Nein, eins.

Hast du unter C überhaupt einen Pfad C:\Temp ? Den Temp Ordner auf C muss man von Hand erstellen.

Post by Vizu // Feb 14, 2009, 3:57am

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sicher habe ich den Ordner. Sieht man doch auf den screenshots rechts. Da sind die Ordner Temp und Temporariy files

Post by prodigy // Feb 14, 2009, 4:03am

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Ha yes...

Die Tiere dieser Erde die mog i ziemlich gern
Doch am allerliebsten mog i die Haserln und die Bärn

Es sterben bald alle Vögel es sterbn bald alle Käfer
Nur im Bett da liegt der Adam und vermehrt sich mit der Eva

Die Hosn leben im Woid
Die Kotzn in da Wiesn
Und die Kakerlaken
Die leben hinter die Fliesn

Klane Haserl haben kurze Naserl
Und klane Katzerl haben weiche Bratzerl
Und die Frau Holle hot gern die Wolle
Vom Dromedar aus Afrika ...

c:\Temp..

Hope that helps.. :D:D:D:D:D:D

Post by prodigy // Feb 14, 2009, 4:09am

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Ha for those who ask.. Hey? prodigy speak German?

The answer is NO

But i found the lyric of a nice German song.. and i though that may help vizu humor :D

Post by Vizu // Feb 14, 2009, 4:12am

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Hahahaaaaaaaaa yes this helps and i choose to use Vray4TS so long i have a bug or problem in the yafaray.

Post by prodigy // Feb 14, 2009, 4:17am

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Vizu, try this..

go to the Directories tab

Select the right location where you yafaray is installed..
On set C:\Temp\... Click on Custom Temp Directory

And Custom XML Export Files..

Don't change any location, just click on the check box.. im havin right now that problem (don't know why) and this may solve it..
And try if that helps

Post by jamesmc // Feb 14, 2009, 6:45am

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I'm waiting on the braille version. :)

Post by Igor K Handel // Feb 14, 2009, 7:40am

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Yah for the vray alternative, nice work guys! So fast to get it out as well, very impressive. :banana::banana::banana: all round!

Ok heres the sting in the tail :p

Now I'm not into scripting, Le n all the techy stuff but heck I have been using computers since Noah invented the bbc micro and the zx spectrum rubber keys were thought a good idea? Selling my Oric was an act of sheer salesmanship on a par with trying to sell a return ticket for the Titanic the week after it sank! Then there was amos and my dearly missed amigas, stares out of the window with tear in the eye.

To the point...

I download the windows32 version and the qd file(or what ever it was called. I install qd without probs, I install yafaray it asks where the blender folder is? tried a couple of options Ie the TS main folder (lateral thinking or just plain dumb?), the ts scripts library, but heck can I get this baby to show up anywhere.... Nope. It aint a plugin for the manager so I can't load it that way.

Perhaps I am not alone in being technically cough challenged.

Any chance of a (complete) idiots guide (vid tut) to getting this up and running, as I am sure (well I doubt) that I will not be alone in this blissful state of technical ignorance out there in TS userland

Ps Yes I do have a c:temp folder, I still have Vray installed if that makes any difference. In my case ts is installed into d:\3dprogs\truespace\

Many thanks, and hopefully this may save others from having to admit just how much they have avoided scripts and the LE like me:p (give me a rigging problem any day)

Cheers
IK Handel

Big EDIT lol

OK OK so the install library shows up at the bottom of the libraries viewer even though it starts with "Y". that can only be described as quaint/quirky lol. Got Yafaray going but reckon still good idea to show step by step tut?

Post by v3rd3 // Feb 14, 2009, 8:21am

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I think that Yafaray install asks re: Blender because Yafaray is tightly integrated.


Yeah.. I would love the simple cave man's tut as well. I am trying to sort out one or two details to get renders out myself.


Signed


Plugging along :D

Post by Jack Edwards // Feb 14, 2009, 11:28am

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Yeah definitely a tutorial coming. Keep in mind guys this is a beta we've been focused on making the software. With the release being as late as it is I decided not to wait for the docs to be created.

@Vizu, something strange going on with yours. I'm not sure why it would want to copy to the .cmd file. The cmd file is the script that's already running. It's supposed to copy the yafaray.tga file to whatever .tga you specified in the output field...

About Blender, I thought you guys already installed that to use Froo's plugin. ;)

Post by RAYMAN // Feb 14, 2009, 12:29pm

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I´m getting a clay render even when i split the car into all objects and applied

the glossy paint with coat ! I made a few test renders with a cube before that and had some problems with that also but i got some colors and textures

...

any idea whats going wrong ?

Post by Jack Edwards // Feb 14, 2009, 12:41pm

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Can you upload the XML file created by the exporter? It should be in the directory with your render unless you set up custom directories. This is likely and issue with the material name that tS gave it. Currently the material names are hard coded into the script. Eventually we plan to implement a more flexible approach. Looks like the geometry is coming through great though!

Also I'm going to work on a quick setup video later tonight. Hopefully that'll help people with getting started.

Post by RAYMAN // Feb 14, 2009, 1:03pm

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jack I did not apply the shaders to all 130 parts of the car....

just the outside and the wheels and glass for the screens and headlights...

but still it should render at least these parts !

Heres the XML file that you wanted !

The geometry comes in well ! And it renders quite quickly too !

The custom own folder destination does not work it always renders

to the temp folder in the c drive !

The same materials on spheres work well !

Peter

Post by Jack Edwards // Feb 14, 2009, 1:36pm

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Good greif. The XML files is 15mb lol. Looking at it now...haha Internet Explorer choked on it. Loading it up in Notepad++. I don't see any materials exported. I'll need a screen grab of the DX material node inside the link editor to see how it's named.

Or if you can get the file size down under 5mb or so you can e-mail it to my private e-mail and I'll take a look at it.

To use a custom folder, you have to check the checkbox above it. The render goes to the location specified in the "output" field on the Default tab.

Post by Délé // Feb 14, 2009, 1:47pm

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Would probably be good to know the pathway to the material node too. It could be something funny is going on higher up in the material.


If you only have a single material applied, it should be:

YourObject/Material List/Material 0/D3D material

Post by RAYMAN // Feb 14, 2009, 1:55pm

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Jack tried another sceen same thing no materials....

although applied to each one of the parts but not all !

Plus I canged the size of the render to 2000x1500 and

what I got only had 2000x 480 px

Post by Jack Edwards // Feb 14, 2009, 2:53pm

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Looks like the exporter isn't finding your materials.

Can you post a screen shot of the level above the one you posted, and expand the bricks so I can see their values?

Odd about the render size discrepancy. Did you change the resolution values on the Camera tab or the Default tab?

Post by clintonman // Feb 14, 2009, 3:36pm

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Jack tried another sceen same thing no materials....

although applied to each one of the parts but not all !

Plus I canged the size of the render to 2000x1500 and

what I got only had 2000x 480 px

Could it be a case of instanced materials? This version requires material instancing set to none.
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