Another Yafaray question - image background

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Micheus,
At this point in time I think you are just as much an expert on YafaRay as I am.

Great explanation on backgrounds in the ambient light.

Using Gimp to add the background may be the best way. Otherwise you may have issues with shadows from the image plane in the background.

From what I remember, the cast shadow option used to be in some of the lights (Spot and Area light I think). The option was in the old YafRAY 0.0.9 (which is obsolete/no longer developed).

YafaRay does have the Transparent Shadows setting in Render Options that can be used with glass that has the fake shadows option enabled or with transparency maps.

Spot lights can be set to "Photon only" so that they do not cast a shadow.

I cannot remember if David Bluecame ever added a cast shadows option to materials or the object parameter within material settings. I think this feature was requested. Hopefully you will get a response from him.

VictorLincolnPine,
Glad to see you are using YafaRay. Great job on the image you submitted for the splash screen contest.

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