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Upon loading the 3Delight for MayaCinema4d plug-in, a 3Delight shelf will be installed.

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The 3Delight shelf

The shelf has three sections: rendering & render settings, object creation, and material creation. The 3Delight menu also offers most of the shelf actions that are related to rendering, render settings and object creation.

Rendering & Render Settings

Rendering

Use these shelf buttons to start a new rendering or stop an ongoing one. See Rendering with 3Delight for more details about rendering.

	Start an interactive rendering.
	Start a live (IPR) rendering.
	Abort render.

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Render Settings

Use these shelf buttons to create or select Render Settings nodes. See Render Settings for more details.

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Create a new Render Settings node and set it as the current Maya selection. The new Render Settings is shown in the Attribute Editor.

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Set the specified Render Settings node as the current Maya selection. The selected Render Settings is shown in the Attribute Editor.

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Object Creation

The following shelf buttons can be used to create new scene objects.

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Create a new

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Cinema4D area light with a quadratic decay rate.
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Create a new environment light.

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Create a new 3Delight Set to define object attribute overrides. The objects in the current Maya selection become members of this set.

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Create a new 3Delight Open VDB shape assigned to a new 3Delight Open VDB shader.

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Material Creation And Assignment

The following buttons can be used to create a new material and assign it to the objects in the current Maya selection Cinema4D selection.

Right-clicking on the buttons will show an Assign Existing: menu listing all existing materials of the type specified by the button. Choosing one will assign it to the objects in the Maya Cinema4D selection

	Create and assign a new 3Delight MaterialPrincipled material.
	Create and assign a new 3Delight Skin material.
	Create and assign a new 3Delight Hair and Fur material.
	Create and assign a new 3Delight Metal material.
	Create and assign a new 3Delight Glass material.
	Create and assign a new 3Delight Substance material.
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