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What's the future of 3Delight?

AtiAti Posts: 9,143
in New Users

I'm reading on the forums sentences like "there are some people who still use 3Delight", and "we are in a transition from 3Delight to Iray" etc.

Does this mean that at some future point 3Delight will no longer be supported in Daz Studio?

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    I can't see it as 3DL offers so much in terms of versatility that Iray cannot provide so IMHO it would be a bad idea to loose 3DL.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613

    It was mentioned that Daz 3D renewed its license for 3delight and the 4.8 releases have had updated 3delight versions, so it's not going away anytime soon.

  • KhoryKhory Posts: 3,854

    "Does this mean that at some future point 3Delight will no longer be supported in Daz Studio?"

    "at some point in the future" covers from now to forever. It will not go away any time soon. They are still working on it within Studio and they recently re-upped the licence so we know that it will be around for the forseable future.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,392
    edited October 2015

    Getting rid of 3Delight would be commercial suicide.  There a still a very large number of people out there who are still using it and no sensible company is going to ignore that. (Incidentally, I now use Iray almost exclusively.)

    Cheers,

    Alex.

    Post edited by alexhcowley on
  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    Don't forget, there's a lot more to 3Delight than just the features D|S lets us users play with. There's a lot of scope for allowing more existing features to be visible and adjustable in future D|S versions. And D|S isn't even using the current version of 3Delight, I think we're several versions behind.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Studio 4.8.0.59 uses 3DL version 11.0.130.  The current free version of 3DL is 12.0.19.  The current pay version is 12.0.27.  11.0.168 was the last version 11 release (pay, I believe).

    So yes, quite a few versions back, actually.

    And here's the 11 Changelog

    https://3delight.atlassian.net/wiki/display/3DSP/Changelog+11.0

    12

    https://3delight.atlassian.net/wiki/display/3DSP/Changelog

  • dakkuuandakkuuan Posts: 305

    I don't see it ever going away.  There are times you simply don't want physics based lighting calculations.  If I were to use Daz for gaming animations, I wouldn't use iray.  There will always be a standard rendering solution in Daz Studio and it will likely always be 3Delight.

  • jaxprogjaxprog Posts: 312

    I still use 3Delight frequently. I hope it does not go away. It gives me much better postwork options using Topaz Labs add ins for Photoshop than Iray.

  • n.drju_6d88cb4c15n.drju_6d88cb4c15 Posts: 33

    Or you can just ignore updates. :p

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