Overview

3Delight for Softimage is a fully integrated rendering plug-in for Autodesk® Softimage® 3D Animation Software. It achieves seamless integration into Softimage, without any compromises in workflow, and brings a higher level of rendering performance and capabilities otherwise unavailable to the Softimage user base. The most important benefits are:

Significantly faster rendering of motion-blur and depth of field (up to tenfold)
Significantly faster rendering of Hair and Fur (up to fivefold)
Ability to use displacements extensively with negligible impact on performance
Ability to handle much larger scenes using significantly less memory
Better quality rendering with perfectly smooth subdivision surfaces
Proven RenderMan standard and practices with RIB import/export and RSL shaders
Network caching for efficient bandwidth utilization while rendering on a render farm

Among the long list of features in 3Delight for Softimage, you will find support for:

The Render Tree, shader compounds and more than 200 Softimage native shader nodes
The ability to add RenderMan shaders (as materials) as well as RenderMan shader nodes
Toon shaders and Inking
ICE Volumes, Particles and Strands
Volumics
Render Maps
Fast global illumination through photon-mapping and final gathering
All geometries, including subdivision surfaces, NURBS, Fur and curves
Scene caching for rapid lighting
Integration in the render region and support for most output formats
XSI 7.0, Softimage 7.5, Softimage 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 compatibility

3Delight for Softimage comes at two different price points: one tailored for Dual or Quad-core computers and one with unlimited performance for those computers with more than four cores (such as those with two Quad-core processors or more). Both have the same feature set.

3Delight is the first third party renderer to achieve full integration inside Softimage and the only renderer to bring the RenderMan standard to the Softimage user base.

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