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Review on YafaRay by Edward Freeland

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good Particle system especially great visualisations

I like that it's easy to use, has support for both GPU rendering as well with CPU cores (which makes sense). The renderer itself can be slow if you have many particles in your scene or high quality meshes due its low-level nature of how BSP trees are built from triangles/quads etc., but this isn't much an issue unless doing really large scenes (>10000 objects) which will take some time regardless even without using yafaray at all! It may sometimes crash when saving out files so make sure save often while testing things before making too big production changes - however crashes aren’t usually very common during development stages where most users won;' t mind waiting 1 hour+ until they see any results back vs crashing once every 10 minutes ;) If anyone wants good lighting effects then definitely do try these first because there would.

Pros
  • It can do good lighting effects and has great GPU rendering support
Cons
  • The renderer itself is quite slow, but I guess this is the price to pay for BSP trees and how it handles lighting