Overview
3Delight is a fast, high quality, RenderMan®-compliant renderer designed to produce photo-realistic images in demanding production environments. The renderer was introduced in 2000 and is now widely used in the industry. Because of its high versatility and speed, 3Delight has earned a reputation as a benchmark in rendering technology.
Some of its features include ray tracing, global illumination (including photon mapping, final gathering and high dynamic range lighting and rendering), realistic motion blur, depth of field, complete geometry support (including highly efficient rendering of hair and fur), programmable shaders (RSL 2.0), quality antialiasing and antialiased shadow maps. Advanced features include Ri filtering, network caching and highly customizable workflow. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
In addition to the powerful standalone rendering engine, 3Delight Studio Pro offers a complete suite of tools that brings exceptional versatility. Here is an overview:
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| Main tools for the end-users | |||
| 3Delight Standalone | RenderMan compliant rendering engine for rendering RIB files. | ||
| 3Delight for Maya | Full featured plug-in that extends Maya's functionality to use 3Delight rendering technology, setup render options and passes, interactively build RenderMan shaders, export RIB files and more. Learn more » |
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| 3Delight for Softimage | A seamlessly integrated rendering plug-in into Softimage. Allows users to render with 3Delight, setup render options and passes, interactively build RenderMan shaders, export RIB files and more. Learn more » |
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| i-display | Standalone image viewer, for single or sequence of images. Also works with 3Delight Standalone to progressively display images as they render. |
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| Additional tools for advanced users and programmers | |||
| 3Delight Shader Compiler | An optimizing RenderMan shader compiler with RSL 2.0 support. | ||
| 3Delight Core Library | A RenderMan-compliant C library ready to be linked with applications for direct rendering or RIB export. |
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| 3Delight RSL Plug-in Library | An API to extend the shading language capabilities using a C++ interface. | ||
| 3Delight Rx Library | This library gives access to shading language functions such as noise and texturing function. |
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| 3Delight Gx Library | Geometry evaluation library. Enables evaluation of all geometric primitives that are supported by 3Delight, including subdivision surfaces. |
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| 3Delight Sx Library | A powerful shader evaluation library for advanced users who wish to evaluate RenderMan shaders from their own applications. |
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