3Delight

3Delight
Developer(s)Illumination Research
Initial release1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Stable release
2.9.27 / March 8, 2023 (2023-03-08)
Operating systemWindows, MacOS, Linux
Type3D computer graphics
LicenceProprietary
Websitewww.3delight.com

3Delight is a 3D computer graphics software that runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS (both Intel and Apple Silicon) and Linux (both x86 and Graviton). Developed by Illumination Research, it is both a photorealistic and NPR path tracing offline renderer based on its NSI API scene description and on Open_Shading_Language for shading. It comes with supported, open source plug-in integrations for several DCC applications, such as Autodesk Maya, Houdini, Cinema4D, Katana, OpenUSD Hydra, and a democratic free license that allows for commercial use. It also provides a fully distributed cloud rendering service called 3Delight Cloud.