---
name: "yafray"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "yafray"
version: "0.0.9+dfsg-5"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/yafray"
---

# yafray(1)

Yet Another Free RAYtracer

## NAME

yafray - Yet Another Free RAYtracer

## DESCRIPTION

**yafray** \[*options*\] *file\_to\_render*

## DESCRIPTION

YafRay is an advanced raytracing rendering systems that accepts an XML input file and produces an image output file based on its contents.

## OPTIONS

- **-s** *strategy*

  Use *strategy* to render the scene, where *strategy* is either **threaded** (fork multiple threads, which is the default), **mono** (use a single thread and process), or **fork** (fork multiple processes). **fork** is not implemented yet.

- **-c** *N*

  Use *N* processes or threads (depends on the *strategy*), for operating on an SMP computer or cluster.

- **-r** *min\_x*:*max\_x*:*min\_y*:*max\_y*

  Render only part of the frame, values between **-1** and **1**. The whole image is **-r -1:1:-1:1**.

- **-z**

  Optimize for running on a cluster by gzipping some data passed between processes.

- **-p** *path*

  Set an alternative path for the plugins.

- **-v**

  Show the program version.

## SEE ALSO

See the documentation on the website for more information \<http://www.yafray.org/\>.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Nick Rusnov \<nickrusnov@debian.org\> for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.