SU-2-Thea exporter 0.87

tomasz · 30 Mar 2011, 13:13

Dear Friends,

We have prepared an important update of the exporter.

The most important addition is a 'hierarchy/grouped' method of exporting SketchUp models.
It means that Thea's scene structure will resemble a hierarchy of groups and components in SketchUp outliner. This in turn gives you full control over a geometry inside those groups - including moving, rotating, scaling and material assignment.
This method is also considerably faster then old way of exporting 'by material'.

Images are being exported now without a problem.

SketchUp camera movement can be now exported as an additional camera called 'SU Camera path' and/or 'Smooth Thea camera path' . This will help you create rendered animations inside Thea. This feature will be expanded in future to support various animation plugins.

We have added a 'quick render' and 'quick export' options to improve a workflow.
We believe that recent additions will make your Thea experience even more satisfying and help you deliver stunning images.

SU2Thea toolbar retains its visibility on MAC's. I am sorry it took so long to figure it out.
Thea Exporter is being registered as an extension. It can be now turned on\off through 'Properties\Extensions'.

Here is a link to Thea Forum for those who want to give it a try. It will be available in Thea download section soon.

Best wishes

Tomasz

Gaieus · 30 Mar 2011, 13:34

Thanks Tomasz a lot. Great job (and I know that some cool features are also coming).

sepo · 30 Mar 2011, 21:16

+1 Great job on the plugin

Chris Fullmer · 31 Mar 2011, 06:16

Awesome! Thanks you so much Tomasz,

Chris

dedmin · 23 Apr 2011, 08:35

SketchUP 8, Thea 1.0.8 Demo, SU2TH 0.87, Win 7 Ultimate 32bit
It happens when using groups instead of components - the parts inside cabinets are groups. When everything is components there is no problem with renderings.

Gaieus · 23 Apr 2011, 08:42

Hehe. That's funny (and something's indeed buggy here). Would you mind posting it here as well?
http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=83

Tomasz is working his ass off ATM and it's more likely that he monitors that forum more often. He'll definitely have questions (like how you exported; instances/hierarchy etc.)