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    Recommendations for product rendering?

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    • BurkhardB Offline
      Burkhard
      last edited by

      Seems you like it...

      [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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      • HieruH Offline
        Hieru
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        @xiombarg said:

        I've been trying out Thea for a couple of days and been happy with it so far. It's a lot of program for the price and the interface is good. It has most of the major features of a high end renderer with similar results. Not super speedy though.

        The speed depends on a lot of different factors, such as lighting, render method (plus settings)and material complexity etc.

        I don't have a particularly high spec PC, but when I work on product-viz projects with Thea I regularly get clean unbiased results in 20 minutes and good quality biased renders in 5 minutes or less.

        www.davidhier.co.uk

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        • olisheaO Offline
          olishea
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          i'd say thea is pretty damn fast!!

          oli

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          • HieruH Offline
            Hieru
            last edited by

            That was my point πŸ˜‰

            www.davidhier.co.uk

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            • dkendigD Offline
              dkendig
              last edited by

              V-Ray for SketchUp 1.6 Beta just started up recently πŸ˜‰... RT is pretty fast.

              Devin Kendig
              Developer

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              • xiombargX Offline
                xiombarg
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                @burkhard said:

                Seems you like it...

                That would be an affirmative. Keyframe is so much more powerful than I expected. 😎

                As far as Thea goes, I guess I don't really know what is considered to be fast when dealing with renderings for Sketchup, but with the low polygon counts that are typical in my Sketchup models, a rendering in any typical animation program might take a minute or two at most for a good biased rendering. But I do understand that animation programs are in a whole different class and price point.

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                • olisheaO Offline
                  olishea
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                  @hieru said:

                  That was my point πŸ˜‰

                  Oh I know, I was just responding to xiombarg and confirming your findings. πŸ‘

                  oli

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                  • T Offline
                    tomasz
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                    @xiombarg said:

                    As far as Thea goes, I guess I don't really know what is considered to be fast when dealing with renderings for Sketchup, but with the low polygon counts that are typical in my Sketchup models, a rendering in any typical animation program might take a minute or two at most for a good biased rendering.

                    You could try Thea Presto GPU engine when it will be available publicly.

                    Author of [Thea Render for SketchUp](http://www.thearender.com/sketchup)

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                    • xiombargX Offline
                      xiombarg
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                      @tomasz said:

                      You could try Thea Presto GPU engine when it will be available publicly.

                      The Rolex and diamond ring animations look excellent. I haven't committed myself to anything yet so Thea Presto GPU looks like a really good option.

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                      • xiombargX Offline
                        xiombarg
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                        The Thea HDRI pack sounds like an awesome addition for product rendering. The HDRI pack combined with the Presto GPU and all combined with a very reasonable price point, Thea seems to be the best rendering software for your dollar available.

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                        • pilouP Offline
                          pilou
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                          Blender what else ? πŸ˜‰

                          Cycles

                          Internal renderer!

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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