Thea Render for SketchUp

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.

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).