Dev:2.4/Source/Render/Yafray/ReDesign

Yafray New Design

Yafray has reached a point were I start thinking "this could be organized in a better way". Adding new features involves little patches and tricks in the current architecture. Therefore, refactoring the code would help a lot to make things easier for further development. Adding things like GPU GI rendering requires big changes in the program. There are also a lot of things to clean up in yafray's code, so this will also filter a lot of useless/dead/commented code.

This page is intented to gather all the information about any design decisions. As a begining, we will split it in the following sections:

• The new scons based YafrayBuildSystem
• General design rules and guidelines YafrayGeneralReDesign
• Scene definition YafraySceneReDesign
• Scene objects, which ones and how YafraySceneObjectsReDesign
• Light organization LightOrganization

-- AlejandroContyEstevez - 01 Nov 2004