The 3Delight Shelf buttons to control renderings.
The Render button in the Render Settings.
The 3Delight menu items to control renderings.
Setting a different action for the Render button.
An interactive rendering usually produces images in 3Delight Display or the Maya Render View, and optionally produces image files. Rendering a frame sequence is possible; 3Delight Display will show every rendered frame but the Maya Render View will only show the last rendered one.
An interactive rendering can be launched by doing one of the following:
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key.If the scene contains several Render Settings, you can choose which one will be used by right-clicking on or by using the 3Delight → Render With menu instead.
Maya may require you to do additional steps so that 3Delight for Maya can define the
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The Image Layers section of the Render Settings allows you to configure what image layers are shown in 3Delight Display or the Maya Render View, and which ones are produced in files.
Starting a Live (IPR) Rendering
A live rendering continuously monitors the Maya scene and will refresh to display the scene changes. The rendered image of the current frame is shown in 3Delight Display or the Maya Render View, without motion blur. No image files are output during a live rendering. You can choose where the rendered image will be displayed in the 3Delight Preferences.
A live rendering can be started by doing one of the following:
A batch rendering only produces image files. To start a batch rendering, use the 3Delight → Batch Render With: menu.
Alternately, the Maya Render → Batch Render menu item can be used; this in this case the scene must be saved and the actual rendering is done in a separate Maya process, where the scene is opened then rendered. This may represent a significant overhead.
The Image Layers section of the Render Settings allows you to configure which image layers are produced in files.
You can abort an ongoing rendering by doing one of the following:
Renderings can be done using Maya's Render command line utility. Renderings launched in this contexts are batch renderings. For more details about the command line options, see Batch Rendering.