BAGISAS - A Yafray Gui For Linux And Windows

Latest Version: v0.1.0 21.Jul.2003

By Wolfram 'Schlops' Kraus

Introduction • Download & Installation • FAQ • Screenshots • History • Special Thanks • Contact

Introduction

Bagisas is a free and open graphical user interface for Yafray. Yafray is a raytracer (Yet Another Free RAYtracer) released under the LGPL and very popular in the Blender user-community, because of the excellent blender to yafray export scripts Yable/ YableX. The format for yafray scenes is XML and therefore human-readable but not very well editable with a standard text editor (although possible). This is where Bagisas steps in: Bagisas allows you to quickly browse the complete XML-tree and easily change attributes of any element using a attribute/value-table. You can even render your file directly from Bagisas (thumbnail view included). Bagisas is developed with Python (PIL, wxPython & PyXML).

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Download & Installation

Windows Binaries [Sourcecode included]

Download the base Windows distribution (you only need this once, if you already have done this you only need the update, see below): Bagisas.zip [4.5 MB]
Installation: Unzip the above zip file to any directory.
Download the update: BagisasUPD.zip [1.2 MB]
Installation: Unzip the above zip file to the same directory as the base distribution (see above), this will overwrite Bagisas.exe.
Setup: If you run Bagisas for the first time, you have to set the path to your yafray executable (yafray.exe) under File → Preferences. You can save these settings via File → Save Preferences.

Sourcecode [to use either with Linux or Windows]

The sourcecode Bagisas.tar.gz [32 kB]
Requirements:
- Python (Version ≥ 2.2)
- wxPython (Version ≥ 2.4.0.6)
- PyXML
- Python Imaging Library (PIL) (Version ≥ 1.1.2)
Installation:
- Unzip/untar the archive (tar xvzf Bagisas.tar.gz).
- Change to the newly created directory and either start Bagisas with python Bagisas.py or execute it directly (./Bagisas.py).

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FAQ

When I try to render a scene I only see a message "Start render" and nothing more happens.

This should only happen under windows. Please download the file w9xpopen.zip and unzip it to your Bagisas directory.

I want to render either a yafray scene or a shader preview, but I get only an error message that complains about a non existing image?

You have to set the path to your yafray executable, see Installation above.

When I open a XML-file Bagisas gets locked up?

Relax! Bagisas needs to parse the XML and this may take some time, depending on how big your file is. If you want to speed up this process, use the include element of Yafray.

How do I set the colors in the shaderpanel?

Just click again on the button with the desired color property. If you want to set e.g. the color for "Spec" just click on "Spec", select your color from the colorchooser and click on "Spec" again. You will get a visual feedback, because the color of the correspondending button is set to your chosen color.

If I change the name of a shader, do I have to change the shader_name attribute of the objects using that shader?

If it is a per-face shader ("multitextured objects") you have to change the shader for every face, otherwise not. So the best solution is: Don't rename your shader!

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Screenshots


The treepanel of the v0.0.2 Windows version. In v0.0.2 the treepanel was the only panel. [58K]	The shaderpanel of the v0.0.4 Linux version with a rendered preview of the shader. Don't worry about the rendertime, my computer is very slow. [65K]	The raw lightpanel of the v0.0.5 Linux version showing the settings for a volumetric spotlight. [25K]