YafaRay Plug-in - reviewing for Yafaray 3.0

[micheus]

I have another question, please: can wings show a preview window/panel that auto-refreshes every x seconds? One of the recent YafaRay features is the image autosave so you could see the render progress if the preview window also auto-refreshes

For a window that shows the rendering progress, I think the Kerkythea plugin may have some code for that. Install Kerkythea and you can see how that plugin works. It would be nice to see the rendering progress.

oort, that is an window started and managed by Kerkythea that is automatically created when we run the command line string with a file as parameter. It happens in this line at the end of export/3:

Code:

wings_job:render(ExportTS, Renderer, ArgStr++" -o "++filename:basename(Filename)++" "++RA, PortOpts, Handler)

The external application is started in wings_job:render.

If the new version of Yafaray creates a window to show its progress, then that should work in the same way. But, if it only updates the image in disk, then we'll need to implement this kind of feature since I don't remember about any Wings3d code currently doing that.