The A show (post your Thea images)

solo

Thea that is... http://www.thearender.com/cms/

Some random renders while beta testing the new render engine.

Olives, unbiased render. (image resized for posting)

DOF (depth of field) done with rendering engine . No post processing

solo

solo

Thea biased render 4mins 31s

notareal

Great looking dragon! A bit different than the classic "Stanford" dragon seen so often.

solo

Thanks, I like the material, I used 'medium' to give it depth.

This one I used displacement for the wrapping.

Frederik

Great to see such quality renders made with Thea Render...

solo

Thanks Kim, it's an awesome engine.

I missed the whiskey challenge as I was unable to post due to being in beta, so rather late than never.

NO PP

solo

Thea biased.

NO PP

solo

Thea relight, one render only, many light options.

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solo

Built in vignetting option (amount according to your preference)

built in bloom option (amount according to your preference)

dedmin

I downloaded the beta - seems awesome to me and pretty fast! And very good balance between quality, speed, price, possibilities and application integration! Plugin for SketchUP and Blender, 3DS and obj import, Linux version!

solo

...and is available for Mac's too.

not forgetting the amazing solid exporter Tomasz created.

pmolson

The only problem I detected in looking at all the images is that whoever was sitting next to that glass of whiskey was negligent and let the ice dilute what I am sure was first rate hooch.

Amazing renders.

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sepo

Great renders Pete. I hope it is easy to use as well.

solo

Thanks Sid, like everything in life, if you take the time to learn it it becomes very easy.

The learning curve is slightly less than Vue or vray, more than Podium and Irender, IMO just right for the results one can achieve.

olishea

nice work pete. downloaded beta.....

although i cant see much reason to go for thea over twilight apart from displacement, what do you think? is learning curve similar to twilight?

sepo

Sounds good....I must try it.

solo

@unknownuser said:

although i cant see much reason to go for thea over twilight apart from displacement, what do you think? is learning curve similar to twilight?

No, there are more variables, the learning curve is greater than Twilight, Twilight is very simple and powerful integrated render solution, Thea has many more options for you to tinker with, a material editor which IMO is second to none.

It will take some learning to get fluent with Thea, the results and speed of Thea is worth every second spent learning it however as IMO it's one of the fastest CPU based biased and unbiased engines around.

olishea

thanks for the reply pete gonna give it a go

notareal

There is Thea Render manual.pdf that comes with installation, it's good to browse trough specially when you to start to modify materials. SU2TH has a own separate manual - download that with the plugin.
SU2TH plugin do save material info inside the SU scene. I think that the best work flow is to set material with the SU2TH plugin. Then, with a simple scene, there is not much else to do in Thea than hit the render button.