New renderer plugins

[edb]

edb,

Thanks for taking on this task. I was not familiar with those render engines so I googled them. I am still a big fan of YafaRay but I haven't seen any updates from DavidBlucame since January 28, 2024. Still waiting for a first release of what he is/was working on.

Hopefully LuxCore and Appleseed are still being worked on. I checked release dates on the renderers you listed.
Latest release for Appleseed is September 21, 2019.
Latest release for LuxCore is December 25, 2021.
Latest release for Moonray is March 15, 2023.

The following video describes the three you list plus Cycles and Eevee for anyone else like me who hasn't kept up with the latest in rendering software...  Free Render Engines

I haven't been able to spend any time on Wings3D for a long time but I always check the forum. Looking for Glass, Caustics, and SSS (TheBounty fork of YafaRay) to match what YafaRay does. I will watch for something to test.

oort

Thanks oort,

My interest in making some new renderer plugins has been mostly since no one has made them yet and I wanting to expand the choice of options in wings. (It being brand new plugins means I can make something from scratch too)

For each renderer plugin, the materials will have "Basic" and "Advanced" style of editing, where advanced is directly adjusting the material values available, and basic is a simpler preset-like version.

I noticed Yafaray is under development and I think they are also maintaining the wings Yafaray plugin in parallel. I noticed they have web site issues for some time and I'm not sure from the github issue as to what is going on. Someone could probably ask them if they need a new web site for the project, though the issue mentions it doesn't seem they need one yet until something is fixed(?)