Thea For SketchUp 1.0 (Preview video)

Ecuadorian

Oh. You're right.
Yet another reason to thank the Thea team.
I'll keep this in my radar.

thomthom

For those already having Thea+SU plugin, there will be no "upgrade fees".

dale

Tomasz
I think all of us Thea/SketchUp addicts have been really anticipating this. This is fantastic news, and will make my, and many of our workflows so much more streamlined.
Thanks soooo much for all your hard work.
I purchased Thea days after it was first released, and I cannot believe the advances that have been made (all I should add at no additional cost above the original licenses).
What an awesome team.

solo

Now I only need to use studio if I have a scene that requires vegetation, I can render final images right in Sketchup, this truly is a game changer.

Image of a scene in SU on one monitor and SU/Thea on the second (dual 27" monitors, reduced size for posting)
[xxl-img:rykeosk6]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1129899/dual monitors.jpg[/xxl-img:rykeosk6]

jpalm32

Nice Solo!

pep75

Can someone tell me if Thea is faster then the Maxwell renderer? I bought Maxwell but its rendertimes are prehestoric (compared with C4d).

Thanks!!

dbalex

Thea is way faster then Maxwell!

Vicspa

Another BIG + for Thea.

marvins_dad

Great!
2 questions...
1 - will there be a limitation with the non 64 bit - similar to Twilight's choking under the 32 bit restrictions?
2 - Relight? Is that accessible through this new interface?

solo

@unknownuser said:

1 - will there be a limitation with the non 64 bit - similar to Twilight's choking under the 32 bit restrictions?

So far in my testing, SU/Thea is limited to what SU can handle, other than that I have not seen any limits, however the solution to this is to export to studio when you are ready to add heavy poly models and it will export all your settings as you have in SU into studio.

@unknownuser said:

2 - Relight? Is that accessible through this new interface?

Currently this is not yet included, but then again there are still so many things to be added I'm sure Tomasz has this in the plan.

Vicspa

Solo, if you are not looking for a super render, can you save as is from sketchup?

solo

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Vicspa

Thanks,... it's going to be tough waiting for it.

solo

@unknownuser said:

Solo, if you are not looking for a super render, can you save as is from sketchup?

The SU/Thea plugin renders the same quality and all the same engines as the Studio, so you can render at full quality with it.

Edson

Windows and Mac?

dale

@edson said:

Windows and Mac?

Yes Edson, I have had it on my Mac from it's release.

utiler

Wow, finally Thea comes to Meet Maxwell and Podium!!!!!

Edson

@dale said:

@edson said:

Windows and Mac?

Yes Edson, I have had it on my Mac from it's release.

this is great news. perhaps this is the reason they took so long to port twilight to mac: they were preparing a thea plugin!

tomasz

Just to clarify on the Mac version. I guess Dale was referring to Thea Studio available for Mac since the first release.

The plugin will be also available for both systems, OSX & Windows, from a day of a first public release.

notareal

@edson said:

@dale said:

@edson said:

Windows and Mac?

Yes Edson, I have had it on my Mac from it's release.

this is great news. perhaps this is the reason they took so long to port twilight to mac: they were preparing a thea plugin!

Twilight development is independent to Thea or Thea For SketchUp (but naturally partly related to Kerkythea developement as it's based on Kerkythea render core). Thea got OSX and Linux versions from the beginning, so it's natural that SU for mac is supported too.