The Render Engine Tab
The Viewing Apps Tab
The first section of this tab contains the Render View option for selecting the window (and application) in which image layers will be displayed on screen during rendering. See Image Layers (AOVs). It can be either the Maya Render View, 3Delight Display or Custom Frame Buffer. When the latter is selected, the render view used for rendering is specified through the 3delight.config
file. 3Delight Display is used by default.
The second section of this tab specifies the location of the applications that will be launched to visualize the different types of data sets/files specified in various 3Delight for Maya fields. The supported types of applications are listed in the table below.
File Type | Application |
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NSI | This application will be launched to view NSI files. The default application is WordPad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac OSX. There is no default application on Linux. |
Log | This application will be launched to view rendering log files. The default application is WordPad on Windows and Console on Mac OSX. There is no default application on Linux. |
Image | This application will be launched to view images. The default application is 3Delight Display (a.k.a i-display) on all platforms. |
Statistics | This application will be launched to view statistics output by the rendering process. The default application is Internet Explorer on Windows, Safari on Mac OSX and Firefox on Linux. |