3Delight for Houdini is a flexible and easy to use rendering plug-in for SideFX's Houdini. It leverages the power of 3DelightNSI in support of the most demanding rendering pipelines. Here is an overview of the main components in 3Delight for Houdini.
3Delight ROP
3Delight and 3Delight Cloud ROPs include settings for items such as image quality, frame range and image layers (AOVs). They can be edited in Houdini's ROP node. These options can also specify the list of objects to use for rendering.
See 3Delight ROP for a complete description.
3Delight Shaders
3Delight for Houdini comes with several shaders and a set of handy physically-plausible materials. Glass, Metal, Skin, Substance and more are offered. Atmosphere and Open VDB shaders are also included. See Shaders for a complete description.
Object Attributes
3Delight for Houdini supports many of Maya's Render Stats options and defines additional attributes on some Maya nodes. See Object Attributes and Set-Based Attributes for a complete description.
3Delight Display
3Delight Display, an advanced image viewer that comes with 3Delight for Houdini. 3Delight Display offers several unique features: image layers presentation in contact sheet form, thumbnail view of previous renders and easy A/B comparaison, graphical presentation of rendering statistics, real-time light mixer and user friendly tools to inspect images in details.
3Delight Display is also used to sign in and monitor 3Delight Cloud rendering activities.