Thea Render for SketchUp

Altair Engineering Official UK Reseller

Thea for SketchUp is a combination of powerful rendering engines of Thea with the simplicity of SketchUp. Having biased, unbiased and interactive render modes including GPU support at your fingertips, inside SketchUp view, is a joyful experience. The plugin lets you enrich your models with highly detailed three dimensional content, breaking old limitations related to handled model complexity. Thea for SketchUp stands out among plugins by delivering an impressive combination of rendering power and ease of use

Scatter tool

Scatter is a versatile tool designed to help you distribute and populate instances within your scenes efficiently.Additionally, Scatter is perfect for adding greenery to your scenes, enabling you to seamlessly integrate plants, trees, and other vegetation, creating a more vibrant and lifelike environment.

Fur tool

Fur is a practical tool that enhances the visual appeal of various surfaces by covering them with realistic fur strands. This tool is particularly useful for creating detailed and attractive rugs, cloth, and other items that benefit from a textured, furry appearance.

Nitro material editor

A new PBR-compliant material definition has been introduced, supporting the metallic/roughness workflow for more accurate and realistic rendering of materials. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and precision in achieving lifelike textures and finishes.

Tone mapping variance

Bitmap tonemapping parameters like saturation, hue, and gamma can be randomized to add variation to a scene using a single material. This creates diverse visual effects and moods, enhancing the scene’s overall appearance.

Thea Render for SketchUp

Altair Engineering Official UK Reseller

Thea for SketchUp is a combination of powerful rendering engines of Thea with the simplicity of SketchUp. Having biased, unbiased and interactive render modes including GPU support at your fingertips, inside SketchUp view, is a joyful experience. The plugin lets you enrich your models with highly detailed three dimensional content, breaking old limitations related to handled model complexity. Thea for SketchUp stands out among plugins by delivering an impressive combination of rendering power and ease of use

New: Fog and Cloud Presets

With Thea for SketchUp you are able to adjust the Global Medium of your scene, via the settings at the Environment tab. A new Fog Preset allows you to control the fog density, its base and top level positions and create unique photorealistic renders. Additionally, there is also a new Cloud Material Preset for adding volumetric effects on defined solid groups or components.

Interactive Render Overlay

Thea for SketchUp allows you to run interactive render either inside Thea window or directly inside SketchUp view, a feature that we call Interactive Render Overlay. Additionally, with the use of Interactive Region Rendering a desired part of SketchUp view can be selected and rendered, providing ultra fast feedback for complex scenery. It is a valuable help in the workflow as it gives you an immediate visualization of geometry modifications, environment, depth of field, reflections, light distribution, material properties and external Thea models in a scene.

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
Render Animations

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.

Materials

Thea for SketchUp lets you benefit from full Thea Material Editor, which supports all kinds of layering, tone-mapping, displacement, light emittance and procedural textures. Additionally, Thea libraries can be found inside SketchUp Paint Bucket (in SketchUp Material format) and inside Content Browser for applying Thea materials easily and directly!"Convert Thea Material(s) to SKM" tool helps you convert your own libraries. Licensed users can download additional libraries, in both Thea format and SketchUp materials format. Moreover, you can choose one of the available Thea material presets (they also come with useful parameters that let you adjust their properties).

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