Thea4SU - Instancing of external Thea models

[tomasz]

Dear Freinds,

Please find a video of a new feature in the upcoming Thea For SketchUp.

[flash=470,370:3bedmjpw]http://www.youtube.com/v/kizZm7BqEhk[/flash:3bedmjpw]

Instancing of external Thea models directly in SketchUp will let you use models with a high polygon count directly inside the application without noticeably changing a size of a *.skp file.

Inserted model is being displayed as an empty cube - a place-holder for a full model, which is being loaded into Thea when you press 'Render' button.

Best wishes

Tomasz

[Rich O Brien]

[notareal]

Also a little teaser from Solid Iris - Birch Trees library.

[Gaieus]

@notareal said:

Also a little teaser from Solid Iris - Birch Trees library.

[massimo]

[Frederik]

I'm so excited about this...
This is going to be such a great step for the Thea4SU plug-in...!

A little off topic... The grass in that model - how have you made it...?

[thomthom]

Looking very nice!

Got a suggestion for the proxy though:
Proxy display option like 3D Studio Max's mr Proxy where the proxy instance display a user specified number of vertices from the referenced model. That way you get a simple point cloud presentation of the linked geometry.

Alternatively, use the preview thumbnail on the proxy object. Though this means an extra material in the SU model.

My vote is on simple point cloud representation. One can use Contruction Points

[dale]

This is why I love Thea

[tomasz]

@frederik said:

little off topic... The grass in that model - how have you made it...?

It is a model from Thea forum by hsdstudio. I have positioned it in regular rows and used Chris' "scale&rotate" plugin on them. Thanks Chris!

@thomthom said:

Got a suggestion for the proxy though:

Good one! I am considering building a front face, at least for Thea Library Trees. Your point cloud solution sounds interesting.

I am wondering if there is someone who uses SU SDK for creating geometry? I am reluctant to try it, due to potential program stability problems.

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

I am wondering if there is someone who uses SU SDK for creating geometry? I am reluctant to try it, due to potential program stability problems.

I think Simlabs uses the C++ SDK to for their importers. Think they build a model with the SDK and import that - for speed.

[sepo]

wow....this looks so promising. Could someone elaborate if the trees are going to fee pay for or part of library for existing users?

[tomasz]

@sepo said:

wow....this looks so promising. Could someone elaborate if the trees are going to fee pay for or part of library for existing users?

They will be available for all licensed users.