Once 3Delight for Maya in loaded in Maya, the 3Delight Menu and Shelf will appear and you will be able to render using 3Delight. The free 3DelightNSI does not require a licence file, but if you are running the paid version and you have no license file installed, you will have a watermark in the image when you render. Installing a license file is explained in Configuration.
Loading the Plug-in in Maya
If 3DelightNSI 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.
The Maya plug-ins that comes with 3DelightNSI
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.