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 or 3Delight Display.

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 TypeApplication
NSIThis 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.

ImageThis 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.