v4.0.41 updated Feb 21st 2015.
3Delight is a fast, high quality, RenderMan®-compliant renderer designed to produce
photo-realistic images in demanding production environments. The renderer was introduced
to the public in the year 2000 after being used for more than a year as the sole renderer
in a sister production company. It is now widely used and earning a reputation as
a benchmark in rendering technology. [..] (cont'd on product page)
DNA research recently released the 4.0.41 upgrade and extended the free license to
support up to
8-core CPUs. Highlights from the
changelog (archive):
Volumetric Smoke and Shards
Any shader as light source projection
Exposure, Gamma Controls
Mesh Light support
ESC to stop render. Last year's big 4.0 update introduced features such as:
support for deep EXR files
Native MARI textures support
Improved sampling of environment maps
Added the physically plausible 3Delight Material
"Continuous rendering" is now enabled by default
Up to x2 acceleration in hair/fur rendering
Memory usage is down 30% when using the path tracer
Skin shader for 3Delight for Softimage
Motion Map property is now supported
A list of movie projects rendered with the 3Delight renderer. As mentioned the product is free of charge for
the first 8-core license. Additional quad-core licenses are available for 400$ each
and unlimited multi-core licenses for 900$ each. Yearly support and updates 190$/290$
resp.
