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    Recommendations for product rendering?

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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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                  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
                      last edited by

                      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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