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- A new unlimited-threads license is now available for both the 3Delight standalone renderer and the 3Delight for Maya plug-in. Clients that purchased the 8-thread license (and under yearly support) are automatically upgraded to unlimited-threads. The 8-thread license will no longer be available, but the 4-threads and 2-threads will continue to be available at a reduced pricing.
3Delight For for Maya
- Introducing RIB Fragments: a user-friendly and flexible way of creating and managing RIB archives. This feature is useful to accelerate re-renders.
- The display drivers UI has been improved and simplified making it easier to manage and visualize output variables (AOVs). “Primary Displays” and “Secondary Displays” have been collapsed into the same UI.
- Major performance improvements to the 3Delight Relationship Editor which make it responsive even with very large scenes.
- Improved UI in the 3Delight Relationship Editor by using distinctive icons for different shaders and attributes.
- Added support for many useful Hypershade nodes, most importantly: misss shaders, car paint, metallic paint, glossy reflection and glossy refraction.
- Scene parsing optimizations reduce RIB output time by 20%.
- It is now possible to render Shave and a Haircut nodes without loading the 3dfmShave plug-in: 3Delight for Maya automatically uses Shave plug-in’s RIB export function in that case.
- Maya sprite particles can now be rendered as “volumes” for correct shadowing.
- Maya fluids implementation enters a beta stage. All current limitations are listed in the user’s manual in the Rendering Guidelines chapter.
- Added Maya 2010 support and dropped Maya 8.0 support.
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3Delight 8.5 and 3Delight for Maya 4.5
May 2009
3Delight For for Maya
- Introducing the 3Delight Relationship Editor. This new user interface replaces the now deprecated Shader Manager and Attribs Node Manager and makes it much easier to view, assign and modify3Delight shaders and attributes, in a centralized location. The usability of shader and attribute collections is substantially improved thanks to this same feature and one can inspect, for each pass and at a glance, what attributes and shaders are in effect.
- Introducing “Pass Templates” It is now possible to save a given render pass as a template and create new passes based on existing templates.
- A new "round edge" features enables automatic edge rounding of sharp geometric features. Using this feature, one can round edges at render time (such as a table edge) instead of performing a costly modeling-time operator.
- Added a âdicing cameraâ attribute in the geometry attributes node (in the âCulling and Dicingâ section). This features is useful to stabilize popping displacement during animation.
- Updates to HyperShade:
- - The “useBackground” node is fully supported.
- - Checker node with much better anti-aliasing.
- - 3D texture nodes now use texture reference objects if these are exported.
- Scene export has been optimized and runs twice as fast for certain scenes.
- The following MEL bindings have been added: RiBound, RiDetail, RiDetailRange, RiOrientation and RiShadingInterpolation.
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3Delight 8.0
October 2008
3Delight For for Maya
- The way 3Delight attributes are connected and interpreted has been much improved for greater flexibility and ease of use: it is now possible to connect only a small subset of attributes to any given node. This feature enables a hierarchical attribute interpretation scheme in which undefined attributes for a given object/node are looked up higher in the scene hierarchy.
- Images can now be rendered in background so artists can still use Maya while rendering frames.
- The Coordinate System node can now display an environment dome in Maya’s view for easier image based lighting.
- Added render-time CSG support (boolean modeling operators).
- Improved HyperShade translation and support:
- The following nodes exactly match Maya’s look: cloth, ramp and contrast.
- Added support for mia_material, mib_ambient_occlusion and particlSamplerInfo.
- Photons can trigger HyperShade shader evaluation to get the correct surface color.
- The plug-in now honors Maya object visibility attributes (“Render Stats”) in case no 3Delight visibility attributes have been defined.
- Added more control on how particles are rendered. For example, particles can now have a sub-pixel size.
- Added support for area lights.
- Advanced features include:
- RenderMan shader writers gain control on how parameters are presented in the AE using a new parameter grouping functionality.
- User definable light nodes gives the necessary flexibility to customize RenderMan commands output when issuing light sources.
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3Delight 7.0
November 2007
3Delight For for Maya
- The plug-in is better integrated into Maya. It now registers itself as a standard Maya renderer and is thus accessible through the Render Settings. Batch rendering and command line rendering (through the standard Maya Render command) is now possible.
- Improved HyperShade Translation:
- - 3Delight For for Maya tracks HyperShade network modifications and only translates and compiles shaders which have changed.
- - The following hypershade nodes are now supported: ocean, remapValue, lightInfo, layeredTexture and volumeLight. The Image Sequence options of the File texture node are now supported.
- - HyperShade networks for light sources are correctly translated into their RenderMan SL equivalent.
- - The RenderMan Code shader can now declare output variables and those can be output using secondary displays (advanced).
- Support for RIB archives creation and reading using a user friendly, yet flexible, interface.
- Out-of-the-box support for Shave & a Haircut and much improved Maya Fur support.
- Object Instancers are fully supported.
- Shadow Maps can be rendered using arbitrary cameras. This allows for better shadow map view framing and thus better quality.
- More output variables added to secondary displays.
- Maya 2008 support.
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3Delight 6.5
February 2007
3Delight For for Maya
- Maya Fur support using efficient procedural geometry.
- Enhanced Hypershade support. Hypershade networks that contain animated attributes are now handled correctly.
- Secondary displays can now output many useful components from Hypershade materials, such as diffuse, specular, etc.
- A “rendermanCode” Hypershade node has been added. It can be used to execute RenderMan SL code in Hypershade networks.
- Support for Maya 8.5.
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- 3Delight now supports Windows 64-bit.
- 3Delight For for Maya now supports Maya 64-bit.
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3Delight 6.0
November 2006
3Delight For for Maya
- HyperShade support. 3DFM now automatically converts HyperShade networks to RenderMan shaders. 3DFM produces clean, human readable code and is easily extensible to support specific HyperShade nodes.
- Shader collections. A powerful feature that enables a per-pass RenderMan shader assignment mechanism.
- Complete geometry support. Paint effects, Maya hair, Maya subdivision surfaces and particles (including blobby particles) are now supported.
- Direct rendering to Maya’s render view.
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3Delight 5.0
February 2006
3Delight For for Maya
The package now comes with a Maya plugin (3Delight For for Maya) that uses 3Delight for rendering. The plugin provides a user friendly interface to many 3Delight features and comes with a RenderMan MEL binding for increased flexibility. 3Delight for Maya is developed in conjunction with soho vfx (www.sohovfx.com). It is based upon their Build A RIB File (BARF) tools developed by Berj Bannayan and used in production since 2003.
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The shader compiler shaderdl now supports variable size arrays. Some optimization options have been moved from O3 to O2 for better code generation. Compilation time has been improved for large shaders.
3Delight 3.0.1
December 2004
Fixes
- Fixed a glitch with RiCurves rendering when motion blur was used.
- Removed some annoying error messages that were displayed during some Windows renderings.
The i-display FrameBuffer
This utility is now more efficient in terms of CPU usage. Draw as Textured Polygon is now the default.
3Delight 3.0
November 2004
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