Upon loading the 3Delight for Maya plug-in, a 3Delight shelf will be installed.
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. |
Render Settings
Use these shelf buttons to create or select Render Settings nodes. See Render Settings for more details.
| Create a new Render Settings node and set it as the current Maya selection. The new Render Settings is shown in the Attribute Editor. |
 | Set the specified Render Settings node as the current Maya selection. The selected Render Settings is shown in the Attribute Editor. |
Object Creation
The following shelf buttons can be used to create new scene objects.
 | Create a new Maya area light with a quadratic decay rate. |
 | Create a new incandescence light. |
 | Create a new environment light. |
 | Create a new 3Delight setSet to define object attribute overrides. The objects in the current Maya selection become members of this set. |
 | Create a new 3Delight Open VDB shape assigned to a new 3Delight Open VDB shader. |
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.
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 selection
| Create and assign a new 3Delight 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. |
| Create and assign a new 3Delight Layered Material. |
Other Menu Items
| Preferences... | Show the 3Delight Preferences. |
| Help... | Open the 3Delight documentation in a web browser. |
| About... | Show information about the 3Delight for Maya version and licensing. |
