Can anyone explain how to use Blender with LightFlow and Yafray?
Assume that i´m really dumb, and tell me exatcly everything. where to get them, how to install etc…
Blender -> LightFlow
Home of the Blender to LightFlow export script, with doc.
Since LightFlow is dying (i.e. not developed any more) I wont pusue it
Blender -> YafRay
Home of the Yable export script (here doc is somewhat lacking, but there is a discussion forum)
Stefano
I’ve got a question myself to add to this.
How do I get Yafray?
I’ve been trying for a couple of hours to link to it to download and get a TCP_ERROR every time.
Is there a mirror for this software somewhere?!
Ooooh. Downloading now…at last.
There’s also a http://mirror.yafray.org if the main site is unavailable 
A mistake many people probably made/make and wonder what is so good about it… the last script is not on my old site… it’s still the old script, no docs, very limited.
I haven’t updated it since although the last script has features no other script yet has, and is quite stable (it is very hard to even stop), all that is completely useless if you can’t even get it to work in the first place, and apparently I made things so complex, that hardly anybody is able to do so, especially beginners… Not really true of course, it is just that it takes some preparations, but that requires reading the docs, step by step, and that is not something many people like to do, most if not all, want something that just works right out of the box.
It’s all a bit dissapointing, I worked so hard on it for months, day in day out, it does feel a bit like I wasted seven months of my time… Oh well, at least parts of the code get a second life in other scripts (like yable)…
And as Stefano says, LF really seems to have been abandoned, or at least the author has said he is working on a new version, but there hasn’t been much news on that since about a year ago, although it took five years to develop LF2…
So in short (you actually read all this?) use yafray or POV or radiance, or wait for the internal renderman export, which is quite developed already and actually partly already works. Just press F12 and voila, automatic 3delight (or other) render, (almost) without any extra work whatsoever…
Has anyone got a list of renderman compliant renderers?
just a word on lightflow : the fact that the site is not updated doesnt mean it is not developed anymore – it is actually evolving into a new project called Embedded Lightflow, that is a nice rendering interface for maya, and soon to many other programs –
lightflow is stilla nice GI renderer, and it’s using python as sdl, so i think it can be still useful to blender users, and a lot… i mean, is far superior to yafray, at the moment –
adios