Here and on my website I share a short story how Thea works with SketchUp models. It is not intended only as a marketing, rather as an insight how Thea works in general.

We do not have native lights in SketchUp. There is no native rendering engine in SketchUp, apart for very simple OpenGL display.

We’ve got Thea touch which creates miracles – beautiful images from models. Even the most elaborate SketchUp display styles do not give them justice.

SketchUp component cannot give light on its own. There must be Thea present and the component has to take a name of a light. It has to have “_lighttype” somewhere in its’ name. It must be saying “I want to be a light!”. Thea will make it emit light, but as most of us understand, not by component’s own means. Thea is the source of light. It is what brings life to any SketchUp model.

Interestingly every component can be turned into a light. ‘Marc’, ‘Susan’ or ‘Heather’ may be converted into an emitter. Try it! Every single light matters in rendering and is taken into account when calculating the global illumination.

There is Thea online manual, few books and a lot of tutorials on Thea, but the most important is to have hands-on experience.

Happy rendering!

Tomasz_pointlight#34

As we have figured out the issue requires both Animator 4.5+ and Thea 4.0.1397+ update.

@fredo6

animator.api_dialog_clip_options() { |result| puts "OK" } 

USE SELECTION = false
#<NoMethodError: undefined method `selection' for nil:NilClass>
fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe:204:in `animal_top_compute'
fredo6_animator/animatoranimal.rbe:181:in `animal_compute_for_film'
fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe:3001:in `chain_compute'
fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe:1244:in `clip_compute_all'
fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe:977:in `clip_open'
fredo6_animator/animatorclipmanager.rbe:2916:in `chain_set_film'
fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:619:in `assign_clip'
fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:602:in `build_list_clips'
fredo6_animator/animatordialogvideogeneration.rbe:378:in `dialog_invoke'
fredo6_animator/animatorapi.rbe:56:in `api_dialog_clip_options'

Yes, something has changed. I will check why it is failing.

The text is a parable. It is not really concerning the software.

@pilou said:

You have also Spline Design!

I didn't know this one.

It is very interesting tool, similar to MagicaCSG from ephtracy.

I wait for they standalone application. I know it is in plans. I am not a fan of storing my creations on a different machine than mine own.

Here and on my website I share a short story how Thea works with SketchUp models. It is not intended only as a marketing, rather as an insight how Thea works in general.

We do not have native lights in SketchUp. There is no native rendering engine in SketchUp, apart for very simple OpenGL display.

We’ve got Thea touch which creates miracles – beautiful images from models. Even the most elaborate SketchUp display styles do not give them justice.

SketchUp component cannot give light on its own. There must be Thea present and the component has to take a name of a light. It has to have “_lighttype” somewhere in its’ name. It must be saying “I want to be a light!”. Thea will make it emit light, but as most of us understand, not by component’s own means. Thea is the source of light. It is what brings life to any SketchUp model.

Interestingly every component can be turned into a light. ‘Marc’, ‘Susan’ or ‘Heather’ may be converted into an emitter. Try it! Every single light matters in rendering and is taken into account when calculating the global illumination.

There is Thea online manual, few books and a lot of tutorials on Thea, but the most important is to have hands-on experience.

Happy rendering!

Tomasz_pointlight#34

It looks your FlexTools make Thea for SketchUp 3.0 crash when exporting models.
When your plugin is disabled, Thea works as expected.

I have had a whole day debugging session with a kind user, who shared his machine with me today. Our export function was stopping due to some error in SketchUp (Temp folder error most likely raised by BugSplat).

I am not sure what actually happens, because I do not have your plugin on my machine, but I would really appreciate you either sharing FlexTools, so I could replicate the issue in my own debugging environment or please download Thea for SketchUp 3.0 and try to see for yourself rendering a larger model.
https://www.thearender.com/downloads/

This issue has to be addressed.

Hi Andrew,

As described in the Linked-In post, please send your resume in Hellenic (at) altair.com.

Cheers
Tomasz

Our Team is looking for a new developer in Athens:

Very good programming level with C++ (C# is a plus).
· Very good knowledge of an advanced GUI framework (for example: Qt, wxWidgets).
· Very good knowledge of object oriented practices (for example: OOP, STL).
· Knowledge of a modeling package is a plus (for example: 3dsMax, Revit).
· Knowledge of a graphics framework is a plus (for example: OpenGL, Vulkan).
· Knowledge of a compute framework is a plus (for example: CUDA, OpenCL)

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