YafaRay Plug-in - reviewing for Yafaray 3.0

[david.bluecame]

Hello,

YafaRay has no inbuilt GUI capabilities so it cannot show a window, it just saves (or autosaves every certain time) to disk.

On a different matter, I have a question for you about the plugin. I'm trying to implement Render Passes, but for it I need each Render Pass (from 1 to 32) to be able to choose from an enumeration of items. For example:

Render_Pass_1 choose from { disabled, combined, diffuse, glossy, etc, ...}
Render_Pass_2 choose from the same enumeration
etc, until Render_Pass_32

I could write a menu with all the enumerated items for each Render Pass but that would be horribly inefficient and difficult to maintain. Is there any way to define a predefined enum set of strings that I can reuse for several variables so in the UI each Render Pass can choose from a list with the same available options?

Thanks!

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Ideally the type of code I'm looking for is this (pseudo code):

Enum definition:
define render_pass_available_values = { disabled, combined, diffuse, glossy, etc, ...}

For the GUI:
for i=1 to 32:
label "Render Pass" + i
RenderPass[i] = select from render_pass_available_values

For XML export:
for i=1 to 32:
print "<RenderPass" + i + ">" + RenderPass[i] + "</RenderPass" + i + ">"

Something like that... is that possible?