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giannis · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 10:19 am

I am very pleased to announce our new commercial renderer. Thea Render comes from the effort and experience of many years and it has a rich set of strong and innovative features. Particularly, it is a rendering system that can produce both photoreastic and unbiased images, thus it is appropriate for users of various different "schools", such as architects, illumination engineers, artists, illustrators and gamers.

We have a lot of new things to show, in parallel with entering the beta phase. In order though to give a quick glance of our advantages, we have prepared a small overview text of Thea Render key points (download from the link below).

For those that simply can't wait to try it, here is our roadmap dates:
Call for beta testers / artists / exporter developers - May
Start of beta testing - June
Start of sales at an introductory price - July/August
Release of Thea Render - September

We have already settled at a very affordable price for the new renderer which will be announced soon, along with a list of features.

I am personally sure that you will find here a nice and warm discussion forum and want to thank you for your support. Stay tuned as we are exposing the new features and technology advances one by one!

best regards
Ioannis Pantazopoulos

James · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 3:22 pm

Thanks Giannis for the brief update on what is happening with Thea. Sounds exciting and hope to check it out.

kwistenbiebel · **Joined:** Mon May 11, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 9

Congrats Giannis !
You deserve it for your hard work on the engine in the past.

A pitty that the introductory price is pre-release.
It makes more sense to sell it when the product is finished imo.

Good luck. I am sure I will check this new forum regularly.

Gaieus · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 4:06 pm

Oh well, I already know something:

Render key points wrote:

Editing a material is easy with the integrated material editor that includes advanced features, such as volumetrics, displacement, alpha and bevel mapping.

Well,displacement is something I've been looking forward to in Kerky for quite a long time so it will definitely be welcome.

giannis · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 4:33 pm

thank you very much.

kwistenbiebel wrote:

A pitty that the introductory price is pre-release.
It makes more sense to sell it when the product is finished imo.

We are not going to start selling with a product that has flaws. It is also a possibility that there will be a small overlapping of introductory price period with release period.

best wishes
Ioannis Pantazopoulos

alex · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 4:38 pm

Also, alfa testing has been on for quite some time already, so beta testing won't be the first tests

mateo.soletic · **Joined:** Mon May 11, 2009 4:31 pm **Posts:** 2

Giannis,
You guys unselfishly gave so much in the past with KT to the whole community that I really
wish you all the best on this in future. We are all behind you.

Cheers,
Mateo

giannis · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 4:58 pm

mateo.soletic wrote:

We are all behind you.

Mateo, we appreciate this very much!

best wishes
Ioannis Pantazopoulos

kwistenbiebel · **Joined:** Mon May 11, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 9

giannis wrote:

We are not going to start selling with a product that has flaws. It is also a possibility that there will be a small overlapping of introductory price period with release period.

best wishes
Ioannis Pantazopoulos

Very good!

dale · **Joined:** Mon May 11, 2009 5:58 pm **Posts:** 203

I want to thank you for all your work, and congratulate you on Thea Render's launch.
Looking forward to it. Cheers

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