Installation Steps
3Delight for Softimage comes as an Softimage add-on and is thus installable as any other add-on. Refer to the Installation page for further details. If you are using the free license, you can start to use 3Delight for Softimage immediately after the installation.
On the other hand, if you have purchase one or more licenses, you have to follow the steps below to complete your installation.
Additional details on how 3Delight licensing works
3Delight licenses are related to threads or processes and are bound to a machine. So a quad-core license offers the following unique flexibility on a given machine:
- Run a single render with the four cores working in parallel on a single image.
- Run two independent renders (working on two separate images), each one using up to two cores.
- Run four different renders, each one using one core working on 4 separate images.
Using an unlimited multi-core license offers the same king of flexibility but with no limitation on how many threads or separate processes that can be launched. For an example, on a single 8 cores machine one can:
- Run a single render with the 8 or even 10 or more threads working in parallel on a single image.
- Run 8 (or more) independent renders (working on different images), each one using one or more threads.
All these scenarios are independent on how many CPUs are available on the given machine. In practice, to fully use a dual-CPU / dual-core machine, one need a quad-core license. Also as a practical note for the unlimited multi-core license, even if running more threads than the number of available cores can sometime provide a small incremental gain in performance, there is a limit to the gain one can achieve this way.
As a reminder, all licenses are floating; they can be used by any machine in a network. They are also platform independent.
When running non-free 3Delight without a license, for testing purposes, a watermark will be displayed. In this form, the renderer cannot be used for commercial work.
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