Is 3delight for Maya worth learning

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Blobbies are just the RIB representation. In the renderer it builds a 3D microvoxel grid (like Mantra does) in much the same way as 2D grids work in normal REYES. This also means that intersecting volumes are handled by the renderer without you caring about it, and it has shading rate controls etc.

3delight does have some API which is supposed to be used for volumes, but I have never used it and it does’t look particularly easy to use. It also doesn’t come working out of the box:

http://www.3delight.com/en/uploads/docs/3delight/3delight_73.html#SEC283

Simon

If understand it all correctly the routine introduced in PRMan 15 is to create a box or a cone that at render time is filled with blobbies that simulate volumetrics? I guess that you could write your own DSO to do it in 3Delight, but it would of course require you to write your own DSO. Your point is valid that 3Delight does not support it out of the box, but I think it’s capable of rendering the same effects.

On a related note, where can you read up on getting started with writing DSO’s?

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