3Delight for Maya is a fully integrated Maya plug-in that lets you render Maya scenes using the powerful 3Delight renderer.
A wide support of all native Maya geometry, lighting, shading and FX features is provided, see limitations Limitations for more details on what is currently unsupported.
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- Full Path Tracing Global Illumination
- HDRI Image Based Lighting (IBL)
- Physically/visually plausible materials
- Area Lights
- IPR Re-lighting
- Network Cache for textures and archives
- Sub-Pixel Displacement (analytic)
- Subdivision Surfaces (analytic)
- Powerful render passes/sets system
- Multi-Light Output (per-light AOV of any component, of any light path)
- Multi-Masks Output (output of object/material masks)
- EXR File Output
- Deep EXR Image File output
- Caustics (via Photon Mapping)
- Ability to choose REYES algorithm (typically for lower pixel complexity projects)
- Ability to choose Point-Based Global Illumination algorithm (typically for lower pixel complexity projects)
- Multi-Camera rendering (Stereo is the case with 2 cameras)
- Outline rendering with shading component detection
- Embedded powerful image viewer: I-Display
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