The YafaRay renderer is very famous among Blender artists and is by far one of the best tools to work side-by-side with Blender. For a long time, we had a direct link from the Blender user interface to render scenes and projects with YafaRay. In the past few months, the renderer suffered a complete rewrite, and a huge upgrade was made in order to make YafaRay even better and to add more features such as different render methods and capabilities. As YafaRay is open source software, just like Blender, we can download and install it free of cost on any computer, with versions available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
To download the latest version of YafaRay, just visit the official YafaRay website at http://www.yafaray.org, and look for a version compatible with your operational system. For this project, we will be using version 0.1.1, which is the most updated version available at the time of writing.
In order to use YafaRay, we have to install Python because all of the...