Thea Render

Gaieus

Yeah, (maybe) three nodes. However it seems that the main app can be installed on 3 machines:
http://www.thearender.com/cms/index.php/buy.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=1

Pixero

@gaieus said:

AFAIK you can install it on 2 computers but can only use it on one at a time.
Now the beta license comes with two additional nodes for network rendering as well.

Actually it's even better. It's three installs on different computers but not used at the same time.

Chris Fullmer

I've got Thea and I love it. I don't do tons of renders, but I hasve spent a lot of time playing with it and learning it. I like how it works. And do read the manual. There is also a video about the material menu that is a must view.

The rendering results are very impressive that is for sure.

olishea

get it....the transition is simple dylan. A day or so and you'll be fine. Just look at the video tutorials etc.

its very fast and easy to use. interactive render makes placing sun and positioning IBL very easy.

you'll love the camera and PP settings like vignette and glare etc...

EscapeArtist

I've used most of the render engines available to SU, from Indogo to Twilight. While many provide great out of the box renders I personally find that once you need to do something a little more complex they tend to fall short (not always true), but with Thea you can really create some great renders and textures. Don't forget all of the extras you get or that will be added on like GPU rendering, a forum full of great free materials and the interactive render feature. Sure, there's a learning curve, I still get stumped with the texturing options, but there will be good guts out when it comes out of beta. The discount is a sweet deal at this time, plus the included nodes and I sprung for SU and Blender exporters - so that covers pretty much any possible modeling and animation need. I'd recommend Thea anytime, especially at this price. Oh, and I'm just a hobbyist, just around intermediate skill at best.

dale

Be sure to let Tomasz know in the Thea SketchUp section on the Thea forum. He is very good at responding.
Your going to love this engine.
Cheers

olishea

shame. The SU exporter didnt work properly for mac a few months back.....it was quickly resolved and works perfectly now....it takes seconds to export a huge model. i'm surprised you have any problems. Thea is absolutely fantastic, its got more than everything you need and the speed is staggering.

olishea

have you emailed the support guys? so let me get it straight...its just your SU exporter that doesn't work? have you tried exporting a simple SU model first?

solo

Bruce, which exporter are you using?

I am under the impression that all issues are fixed, I too had problems but the last two versions have solved all my issues. (win 7 64, IE9, SU8)

notareal

@unknownuser said:

The bad news is the exporter which I was kinda looking forward to...duh..doesn't work on my box
so for now the in-SU material set-up is not going to happen.
I am watching the Thea forum for fixes or suggestions although so far the best advise is to rebuild or repair win7, +IE...etc. My microsoft tools as well as the arsenal of on-line microsoft troubleshooters are all telling me that IE9 and Win7 are working perfectly and that is evident in all other apps that I run.

There been some rare UI corruptions on SU2Thea (one was possible result of a virus), that for my knowledge have not been able to recreate by dev. I think Tomasz will need some detailed info of your system, perhaps even IE registry export. You really have to contact with him.

Perhaps you could create another user account and try if SU2Thea will work fine with it. Then some user profile related issues (or IE settings) can be eliminated.

Gaieus

Yes, I read this on the Thea > SU subforum, too (from one or two persons). And there is a Hungarian guys down inthe Hungarian forum with some similar issues about the exporter, too.

By the way, Bruce, don't you happen to also have a Twilight license? (Material settings with Twilight are exported fine with the Twilight-to-Kerkythea export option and import also fine to Thea).

Well, anyway, the Thea expo9rter already does (and will) have a bunch of cool settings that this issue must be resolved, not worked-around.

Gaieus

@unknownuser said:

That is mypost to the Thea forum.

And I was just about to post this:

*Bruce, this is a very hot (read new) topic in the Thea forums:
http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4864
The guy seems to have been able to solve his issue by creating a new user account (but read through, it is not too long).

If this IS the solution for all, Notareal hit the nail on the head! *
Could you guys stick to the same username all over the place?

notareal

Have you changed some IE security settings from default? Disabled some scripting... used some ActiveX Kill Bits? Anything changed from default Win7/IE installation... maybe used registry cleaners? Or set some other browser as default, like crome? Anyhow, it's certainly promising that it's pinpointed to profile, at-least it does offer a workaround that does not require re-installation. Just a new profile... and find out what corrupts the profile.

notareal

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

Thanks notareal!!!! You are right...I added a new user profile and the Exporter works!!!
Now ...to find out how the profile got currupted....kinda scarry but I am back in business so thanks very much again notreal.

That is my post to the Thea forum.

My own win7 profile was currupt....funny, microsoft couldn't tell me but notareal could.

Well... I been working as a systems analyst. But usually I have no need to bother with IE related issues, thanks to strict policies.

notareal

Might be worth to browse trough IE related "Fix it" solutions http://support.microsoft.com/fixit/

Chris Fullmer

I had a problem with the exporter not working. Turned out it was a plugin conflict. For me it was one of the sun position plugins. I would recommend removing all other plugins and see if that fixes it.

Chris

Chris Fullmer

Did you read my post Modelhead? I did have your exact same problem on a PC...

david_h

Question. . .

in making the purchase. . .do we buy the license at 158 Euros PLUS the plugin for SU at 19?

it's okay, I just need to know what I need to get it going.

Thanks.

D

dale

David
Yes you will require both if you want to export directly from SketchUp.

Chris Fullmer

Thea is lots of fun once you get the hang of it. Then there's just all the basic rendering stuff to learn with materials - that's the stuff I really lack. I don't have a solid understanding of IOR, Fresnel, absorption, on and on. But thea is lots of fun. I've had some really encouraging success with it rather quickly.