Upon loading the 3Delight for Cinema4d plug-in, a 3Delight shelf will be installed.

The 3Delight shelf

The shelf has three sections: rendering & render settings, object creation, and material creation. The 3Delight menu also offers most of the shelf actions that are related to rendering, render settings and object creation.

Rendering & Render Settings

Rendering

Use these shelf buttons to start a new rendering or stop an ongoing one. See Rendering with 3Delight for more details about rendering.


Start an interactive rendering.
Start a live (IPR) rendering.  
Abort render.






Object Creation

The following shelf buttons can be used to create new scene objects.


Create a new Cinema4D area light with a quadratic decay rate.
Create a new incandescence light.
Create a new environment light.
Create a new 3Delight Open VDB shape assigned to a new 3Delight Open VDB shader.


Material Creation And Assignment

The following buttons can be used to create a new material and assign it to the objects in the current Cinema4D selection.

Right-clicking on the buttons will show an Assign Existing: menu listing all existing materials of the type specified by the button. Choosing one will assign it to the objects in the Cinema4D selection

Create and assign a new 3Delight Material.

Create and assign a new 3Delight Skin material.

Create and assign a new 3Delight Hair and Fur material.

Create and assign a new 3Delight Metal material.

Create and assign a new 3Delight Glass material.

Create and assign a new 3Delight Substance material.

Create and assign a new 3Delight Layered Material.