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    • KrisidiousK Offline
      Krisidious
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      Thea Rocks huh? i figured out how to make a dedicated cloud server for rendering Thea.

      By: Kristoff Rand
      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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      • JQLJ Offline
        JQL
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        @krisidious said:

        Thea Rocks huh? i figured out how to make a dedicated cloud server for rendering Thea.

        What do you mean by that? Joining forces with other Thea users to render's one job? Me and my Titan X are in!

        www.casca.pt
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        • KrisidiousK Offline
          Krisidious
          last edited by

          No... I mean using a cloud server via VPN to use Thea Network Rendering. But I never considered multiple nodes. Hmmmm.

          By: Kristoff Rand
          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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          • PixeroP Offline
            Pixero
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            Soo, lets hear what you think about Thea now after testing it for some time.

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            • V Offline
              valerostudio
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              I have been using Thea for about 2 weeks now and all I can say is that it has been fantastic. I really love the ease of use, the UI, simplicity of the settings, the flexibility, and most of the all the development team has been very responsive to my questions and suggestions.

              I did shell out the money for a TitanX card and that has been life altering. It's a terrific render engine and I think the integration into SketchUp along with the Presto engine is a ton of fun! I was initially worried about learning yet another render engine's parameters but it really only took a couple of days before I felt really comfortable with it.

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              • PixeroP Offline
                Pixero
                last edited by

                Great to hear. 👍

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                • V Offline
                  valerostudio
                  last edited by

                  Pixero, keep making those proxies for the SketchUcation store! They are great and the pricing cant be beat!

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                  • PixeroP Offline
                    Pixero
                    last edited by

                    Thanks. I will.

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                    • dkendigD Offline
                      dkendig
                      last edited by

                      sorry guys, I have nothing to report. I know there's some big stuff going on, but that's all I know.

                      Devin Kendig
                      Developer

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                      • dkendigD Offline
                        dkendig
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                        I have alerted the powers that be!

                        Devin Kendig
                        Developer

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                        • P Offline
                          peerman
                          last edited by

                          I hope you can give us Vray users some more info soon Devin! Development of Vray for Sketchup is stalled at the moment?

                          iMac i7 4,2GHz, 32GB RAM, OS X 10.13.5, Sketchup 2018 Pro, ArchiCAD 21, V-Ray 3.6

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                          • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                            jiminy-billy-bob
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                            Devin is actually not working for Chaos Group anymore. So even if he had insights on what's going on, he probably can't talk about it.

                            25% off Skatter for SketchUcation Premium Members

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                              peerman
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                              @jiminy-billy-bob, Ah didn't know that. I had some contact with him a while ago. And under his avatar it still says Vray Support. So who is the next victim we can throw our requests to? 😄

                              Regards,

                              iMac i7 4,2GHz, 32GB RAM, OS X 10.13.5, Sketchup 2018 Pro, ArchiCAD 21, V-Ray 3.6

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                              • V Offline
                                valerostudio
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                                I just this video the other day... looks like Chaos is busy porting to other programs first.

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                                • TedVitale_CGT Offline
                                  TedVitale_CG
                                  last edited by

                                  Sorry things are quite lately guys. Lots of big things happening here on a lot of different platforms. As soon as I'm able to talk about what fun stuff we are working on I will!

                                  Ted Vitale
                                  Owner | Creative Director
                                  http://www.voxl.vision

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                                    peerman
                                    last edited by

                                    Great to hear Sketchup is not all forgotten by Chaosgroup! Waiting anxiously!

                                    Regards,

                                    iMac i7 4,2GHz, 32GB RAM, OS X 10.13.5, Sketchup 2018 Pro, ArchiCAD 21, V-Ray 3.6

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                                      IRISHRAGE
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                                      Hey everyone,

                                           I have been a "lurker" on this site for a couple years now and I am finally fed up with my slow performance in both sketchup (2015) and Vray (2.0) to the point of actually writing a post. As I was checking out Posts this one from Valerostudio caught my attention. OK so this is my deal...
                                            I custom ordered a decent Alienware 18 Laptop with a pretty stout (at the time)  Dual Nvidia GTX 780 m about 18 months ago (will list all vitals below) Sorry if this is too much info guys but better safe than sorry....right?  :astonished:   If I can't get past these issues it sounds like I might need to try Thea? 
                                      
                                      So my biggest problem is that I feel I am not even coming close to harnessing the power of my Machine/Dual GPU? 32 gb ram I have tried countless settings on both Vray and Skethchup and I still have: 
                                      
                                      • Stupidly long render times
                                      • Unreliable render completion - Lots of froze Building Light Cache, etc, etc,
                                      • Have never been able to Use RT function in Vray in spite of trying multiple settins on GPU, VRAY, Cuda settings, OPEN GL, SLI, etc, etc
                                      • Slow or Laggy Sketchup perfomance in spite of using Simple Style, using groups, purged unused,etc, etc

                                      I am hoping that someone can help me with this issue please...? 😕

                                      I am sorry in advance if I have:

                                                          -  Posted this in the wrong location on the forum (I have searched this site for posts that would apply to me and 
                                                              nothing seemed to help me... 
                                                          - Left out vital info for you guys to help me with a solution 
                                      

                                      Thanks in advance for any help and have a good night!!

                                      Computer info & specs:

                                      OS Name​Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

                                      Version​ 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

                                      System Manufacturer​ Alienware

                                      System Model​Alienware 18

                                      System Type​x64-based PC

                                      Processor​Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical

                                      GPU

                                      DUAL NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

                                      GPU DRIVER VERSION: 350.12 (not sure exactly why I landed on this one but tried newer drivers and it was a disaster)

                                      Adapter Type​GeForce GTX 780M, NVIDIA compatible

                                      Adapter Description​NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

                                      Adapter RAM​(1,048,576) bytes

                                      Installed Drivers​nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um

                                      Driver Version​ 9.18.13.5012

                                      BIOS Version/Date​Alienware A10, 9/24/2014

                                      Installed Physical Memory (RAM) ​32.0 GB

                                      Total Physical Memory​ 31.9 GB

                                      Available Physical Memory​ 27.6 GB

                                      Total Virtual Memory​ 63.9 GB

                                      Available Virtual Memory​ 59.0 GB

                                      Page File Space​ 31.9 GB

                                      @valerostudio said:

                                      I have been using Thea for about 2 weeks now and all I can say is that it has been fantastic. I really love the ease of use, the UI, simplicity of the settings, the flexibility, and most of the all the development team has been very responsive to my questions and suggestions.

                                      I did shell out the money for a TitanX card and that has been life altering. It's a terrific render engine and I think the integration into SketchUp along with the Presto engine is a ton of fun! I was initially worried about learning yet another render engine's parameters but it really only took a couple of days before I felt really comfortable with it.

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                                      • R Offline
                                        rspierenburg
                                        last edited by

                                        As far as I know, Vray SU only uses the CPU to render. With RT Render you can use the GPU but last I heard there were issues with it still.

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                                        • I Offline
                                          IRISHRAGE
                                          last edited by

                                          Ok thanks for the info...Yeah have not been able to get the RT to work for quite sometime...Initially it worked but think something got messed up when I changed GPU drivers..?

                                          Do you know if Thea uses the GPU for rendering in SU? (Regular or RT)

                                          Any tips on how to maximize my machine to help address Sketchup Lag? I am stumped...I use groups, layers, etc but still get quite a bit of lag...my model size can range from like 30mb to 100mb. Just wondering if you or any one else has noticed a "break point" in file size where excesive lag starts in SU models. ?

                                          Thanks again for the info about the GPU in VRAY.

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                                          • V Offline
                                            valerostudio
                                            last edited by

                                            If by lag you mean the time it takes to parse, this is a huge issue we all have with SU/VR as our models get larger and larger. No tricks to solve this other than make small crappy models, who wants that?

                                            As for RT. I think there are still bugs there so I would be as bold to say that it doesn't fully work.

                                            Thea uses CPU AND GPU for its RT engines. Presto is very fast and parsing times are almost instant. The biggest thing for me with Thea is there are constant updates, new developments, they implement community suggestions quickly and seriously, and a good amount of transparency over there. I think Chaos needs to either send us some kind of teaser, update on development, or they are going to start losing some of us to Thea or other engines.

                                            When/if Corona for SketchUp comes out, that might be another threat to V-Ray also.

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