Installation

Installing 3Delight^NSI consist of downloading the package (available here) and running the installer. Once this is done, you have to load the plug-in in Maya (this is explained in detail below). Once 3Delight for Maya in loading in Maya, you The 3Delight Menu and Shelf will appear and you should be able to render with 3Delight. But if you are running the paid version you will have a watermark in the image if you have not installed the license file (the free 3Delight^NSI does not require a licence file). This step is explained in Configuration.

Loading the Plug-in in Maya

If 3Delight^NSI is properly installed, the only thing to do in Maya is to load the 3Delight for Maya plug-in. This is done through the Plug-in Manager. To display the Plug-in Manager, select the Maya → Window → Settings/Preferences → Plug-in Manager menu item. 

The 3Delight plug-ins in the Plug-in Manager.

The plug-in extension varies (.bundle, .so and .mll on OS X, Linux and Windows, respectively).

Turn on the Loaded check box next to plugin_3delight_for_maya. After this step, The 3Delight Menu and Shelf will appear in Maya.

Recommended Plug-in Manager Settings 

• If you wish to have 3Delight for Maya automatically load upon launching Maya, turn on the plugin_3delight_for_maya Auto load check box.
• The 3dfmXGen plug-in will be automatically loaded when needed by 3Delight for Maya. It is not necessary to set neither its Load nor its Auto load settings.

3Delight for Maya comes with the following Maya plug-in:

plugin_3delight_for_maya

This is the main plug-in that allows rendering Maya scenes with 3Delight. 

3dfmXGen

This plug-in allows rendering XGen's Interactive Groom Splines nodes. It is automatically loaded when 3Delight for Maya detects that the XGen Toolkit plug-in is loaded in Maya.