I would appreciate the tutorial, thanks.

Very very nice work.

I'm seeing all the great renders that one can do in Thea, I just purchased it and my computer is not booting up, what a bummer, my wife's computer that I'm on at the moment is not up to it, too old and too slow.(kinda like me)LOL

IMHO, I'd like to see a little more contrast, and something that always bothers me are "bad tangents" like the background mountain lining up with the slat on the window. I know, it's no big deal, maybe bkgd should be slightly out of focus. very nice oveall.
What render are you using?

m.wendt, if you are going to give Kerkythea a go, don't forget to dowload all the materials and globals if you have not done so far.

Download Kerkythea, try it, it's free, and works well.

http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/

Keep'em coming Boofredlay, every bit helps till we can play with the plugin.

very useful plug-in, thank you

Sorry srx, but it's never too early.

"Here are some results. Modeled and textured completely within SketchUp and rendered with Thea."

Great Combo Oli

GREAT NEWS,...a break for previous SDS1 users will be greatly appreciated.

Love the way Kerkythea renders.

(Bookmarked) Thanks guys, I hope there are more tuts like this once SDS2 comes out.

I started using it, and it became an instant love affair, hard to put into words exactly even with all the problems with it. I still dabble with Maya, but SU is my preference for most of what I need in my work, and all the plugins help a lot.

Not much of an answer for you, but just getting my 2 cents in.

Thanks for the info ThomThom

Haven't tried it yet but it sounds great, thanks Pixero

it's 64 bit, well my computer is, not sure about the render engine. I'm trying to get the company I work for to spring for Thea or Vray.

Even my computer bogs down when using too many 3D trees, and I have 24Gigs of ram.
So I use as many 2d trees as possible.
I render with Podium that comes with a lot of it's own 2d trees and shrubs.
Otherwise I use kerkythea.

Nice, thanks for the heads_up.