[RV202.1115] Thea for SketchUp

[Tomasz]

Dear Friends,

Now it is your time to see how your machine handles the new Interactive Render Overlay in SketchUp.

The Interactive Region Rendering will help you work on a particular detail in your SketchUp model. This doesn't require that much power and works well even with CPU only. One can mark the region with TheaTool active when shift key is being pressed.

As you most probably have seen in the Trailer, SU model is updated interactively in Rendering Window or directly in your SketchUp view. You can modify objects, lights and materials. All those changes will be reflected in the IR.

All this combined with recent Presto speed improvements gives you an opportunity to see rendering inside SketchUp from a new perspective.

This version comes also with bugfixes:
- Image export works back again
- mod.thea saving in Thea Browser saves associated SU textures now
- [Mac] TheaTool doesn't crash when last model is closed
- [Mac] TheaTool doesn't crash when there is no material in a model
- [Mac] IBL names are displayed correctly now

Known issues:
- [Mac] There is a conflict with 'Vray for SketchUp' installation. We didn't want to see this as stumbling block before providing the update. If you experience a crash after installing Thea4SU, remove Vray installation temporarily, please.

Happy rendering inside SketchUp!

Download page

[Rosco]

Great! Thank you.
Just installed it. I'm currently using 2014, but I've tried with 2013 and with the overlay with blending option is the same as the overlay.
Overlay with blending seems right in 2014, and looks great!.
EDIT: Got it working, I had openGL hadrware acceleration disabled

[ltchesty]

Gadzooks ! By ging-gang-gooly -- this is awesome sauce indeed ! great stuff. very clever indeed. frikkin brilliant. I need to get a better laptop so i can use this when working away from my office.
The overlay blending is not working for me (AO Presto) - but i dont care right now as im so awed by this.
No - i was wrong - the overlay IS working - it was just so subtle that i missed it. Wunderbar !
How do i do the region render ?

[JQL]

Dear Friends,

Now it is your time to see how your machine handles the new Interactive Render Overlay in SketchUp.

The Interactive Region Rendering will help you work on a particular detail in your SketchUp model. This doesn't require that much power and works well even with CPU only.

Sweet my laptop might even be able to stay around some more time... I think it will burn eventually some time soon!

I'm hoping this region render would be enough for .mod.thea making. This would accelerate proxy workflow so much and, now even more, with the texture bugfix!

Thanks!

João

[Mistro]

I updated to version 1115. I'm feeling kinda dumb as I do not see anything different. How do I activate the interactive overlay and regional modes as seen in the video?

[christrapeze]

any ir preset in su for thea and the hilightes areas are for su window or overlay

[Mistro]

Thanks christrapeze!
I got it now. This is awesome!

[ivan.dedos]

Esto es una belleza!


Overlay test:

[man]

at lassttt

thanks thea team.

how do i select the region render?

got it PRESS SHIFT AND LEFT MOUSE CLICK the part you want
could we have an option to select the part we want first then press render?

[Tomasz]

could we have an option to select the part we want first then press render?

Sounds reasonable