Thea for SketchUp is a combination of powerful rendering engines
of Thea with the simplicity of SketchUp. Having biased, unbiased and interactive render modes (GPU support soon-to-be-available as well) at your fingertips, inside SketchUp,
is an joyful experience. The plugin
lets you enrich your models with highly detailed three dimensional
content, breaking old limitations related to handled model complexity.
Main Features
Thea for SketchUp Main Features:
Instancing of External Models (as Proxies)
Point (Omni/Spot/IES), Area & Environmental Lighting
Advanced Camera Settings
Integrated & External Thea Material Editor
Darkroom with Multiple Controls and Render Channels
Cross-Platform (MS Windows / Mac OSX)
Saving Thea Settings with SketchUp Scenes
Export of SketchUp Scene to Thea Studio
Walk-through Animation
External Models
Thea for SketchUp provides a solution that overcomes limitations in terms of complexity of the final model. High quality external Thea models can be inserted as an empty wireframe box. In a rendered image, they will be translated into very detailed originals. This allows an easy population of your model with impressively looking trees, grass, cars and detailed furniture. There are already a few libraries of render ready objects.
Interactive Render
The interactive render mode allows you to preview the composition, materials
and lights in your scene interactively. It is a valuable help in the workflow, which gives you an immediate visualization of the environment,
depth of field, reflections, light distribution, material properties and
external Thea models in a scene.
Materials
Thea for SketchUp lets you benefit from full Thea Material Editor. All
kinds of layering, tone-mapping, displacement, light emittance and procedural
textures are available inside SketchUp. Additionally, Thea libraries can be found inside SketchUp Paint Bucket (in SketchUp Material format) for applying Thea materials easily and directly! With the "Convert Thea Material(s) to SKM" tool, you can also convert your own libraries. Licensed users can download additional high quality material libraries for rendering, in both Thea format and SketchUp materials format.
Panoramic Images
Thea for SketchUp lets you render a model using a camera with spherical projection. The resulting image will be a panorama that can by viewed by an external program or a web application. It is
especially valuable for presenting interiors to clients. It gives an
excellent impression of a proposed solution.
Render Channels
Many SketchUp users posses exceptional post-processing skills. Thea for SketchUp allows rendering a model with multiple images containing separate channels, popularly called "passes". Those channels may include, for example, shadow, depth, direct light, transparency and reflection information. Combining them in an artistic way gives full control over the final image and lets you create otherwise-hard-to-achieve effects.
Export to Studio
Thea
for SketchUp makes it possible for user to export the scene to Thea
Standalone Studio and take advantage of additional staging tools. Using the 64-bit Studio (currently available on Windows / Linux), one can render heavy scenery in very high resolutions without RAM limitation.
Download for Windows
System Requirements: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, SSE2 CPU, SketchUp 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 (Free or Pro)
Find also some video tutorials for the plugin here.
Download for MacOSX
System Requirements: MacOSX 10.5 and above, Intel CPU, SketchUp 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 (Free or Pro)
Download Manual
Download manual of Thea for SketchUp.
Licensed Users can download Thea Libraries also in skm format. Find out more here. Links above contain bundle installers. For more download options, please visit this page. The 20% discount price for the Bundle is a limited time offer, available during Beta Period.
Superior Image Quality
In every work involving visualization, the natural way of lighting and physically correct materials play the most important role. Thea Render light simulation and our unique material system ensure that all your images will take advantage of these essential qualities. No matter whether you render a simple interior design or a detailed product presentation with complex materials the image will tell a whole story for itself. You can focus on your artistic expression while Thea will take care of the final result.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 07:03
New to Rendering?
We have prepared a small glossary of terms for new users that would like to dive deeper into rendering. We hope that we also shed some light on terms that have become quite confusing in the past.
License Problems?
If you have purchased a license of Thea Render and have activation problems, please visit our license troubleshooting page. Feel free to contact us, we will be happy to help.
