Thea for SketchUp

Thea for SketchUp is a high-end, fast render plugin for SketchUp Pro. It combines the powerful Thea rendering engines with the simplicity of SketchUp. Having biased, unbiased and interactive render modes including GPU support at your fingertips, inside SketchUp view, rendering is a joyful experience. Thea has got a built-in online library and is compatible with Extensions as Skatter and Skalp.

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Versatile

With Thea Render you can switch between different render engines. From 'Quick 'n Dirty' to slow but accurate.

Interactive

Preview the composition, materials and lights in your scene interactively, either inside the dedicated Thea window or directly inside SketchUp view!

Advanced

Thea Render has several advanced features such as an extensive material editor, dark room for light adjustments, render channels, dispersion, depth of field and much more!

Functions

Thea Render is equipped with the following functionalities to offer you the highest level of rendering.

Viewport Rendering

Thea for SketchUp interactive render mode allows you to preview the composition, materials and lights in your scene interactively, either inside the dedicated Thea window or directly inside SketchUp view in Overlay or Blending mode. With the use of Interactive Region Rendering a desired part of SketchUp view can be selected for focusing render effort.

Advanced Materials

Thea for SketchUp lets you benefit from the powerful Thea Material Editor which supports physically-based materials and layering, lighting emittance, displacement and alpha mapping. Additionally, with the use of Thea Content Browser you can have access to an increasing variety of ready-to-use high quality Thea materials and apply them easily to your models.

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 empty wireframe boxes inside SketchUp viewport and, in the rendered image, be translated into highly detailed originals, allowing easy population of impressively looking trees, grass, cars and more.

Section Cuts

With Thea for SketchUp you are able to render Sections, without any modification of your model. It allows you to take a “look inside” while geometry is still contributing to reflections and light bounces. This way the lighting in the model is not altered which is beneficial for illumination design.

Animation

With the use of Thea for SketchUp, any animation can be rendered as seen in the SketchUp view. This means that it supports all animation plugins that show their output directly in the view, during animation play-back along with physics animation plugins, like MSPhysics.

Complete Feature List

Interactive Viewport Rendering witht Overlay
Thea for SketchUp interactive render mode allows you to preview the composition, materials and lights in your scene interactively, either inside the dedicated Thea window or directly inside SketchUp view in Overlay or Blending mode. With the use of Interactive Region Rendering a desired part of SketchUp view can be selected for focusing render effort.
Advanced Materials
Thea for SketchUp lets you benefit from the powerful Thea Material Editor which supports physically-based materials and layering, lighting emittance, displacement and alpha mapping. Additionally, with the use of Thea Content Browser you can have access to an increasing variety of ready-to-use high quality Thea materials and apply them easily to your models.
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 empty wireframe boxes inside SketchUp viewport and, in the rendered image, be translated into highly detailed originals, allowing easy population of impressively looking trees, grass, cars and more.
Section Cuts
With Thea for SketchUp you are able to render Sections, without any modification of your model. It allows you to take a “look inside” while geometry is still contributing to reflections and light bounces. This way the lighting in the model is not altered which is beneficial for illumination design.
Animation
With the use of Thea for SketchUp, any animation can be rendered as seen in the SketchUp view. This means that it supports all animation plugins that show their output directly in the view, during animation play-back along with physics animation plugins, like MSPhysics.
Panoramic Images
With Thea for SketchUp you are able to render your scene using camera with spherical projection. The resulting image will be a panorama that can be viewed on a VR headset, by an external program or a web application. It is especially valuable for presenting interiors to clients as it gives an excellent impression of the proposed solutions.
Content Browser
With the use of Thea Content Browser you are able to browse from within SketchUp all Thea materials, models, skies and proxies found in your folders. You can then easily apply a material or insert a model inside your scene with the click of a button!
And much more
- Dark Room for editing light sources afterwards
- Render channels for fascinating effects
- Sky Dome for manually setting the sun
- Artificial Lights: point light, spots, IES, projector, mesh light and face light
- HDRI / Image Based Lighting
- Dispersion
- Rendering of the whole spectre
- Depth-of-field and Motion Blur
- Volumetric rendering
- Two point perspective for architectural designs
- Subsurface scattering
- Thin film
- Clay Rendering
- Fur
- Batch Rendering

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System Requirements

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Software:

Windows 7 to 10 - 64 Bit

System Requirements:

Intel i7 4-Core processor or higher
8 GB RAM
Video card 2+ GB 100% OpenGL*
3-button mouse with scroll function

Video card

* If you are looking for a new system or upgrade, please pay extra attention to the video card. We do recommend video cards with a nVidia Quadro or GTX chip. These cards support OpenGL very well and have qualitative drivers.

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Software:

macOS 10.10 - 10.13

System Requirements:

Intel i7 4-Core processor or higher
8 GB RAM
Video card 2+ GB 100% OpenGL*
3-button mouse with scroll function

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* If you are looking for a new system or upgrade, please pay extra attention to the video card. For Apple we recommend video cards compatible with a recent version of OpenGL. Integrated chip sets are not supported.

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At this moment, there is no Linux version of Thea Render available

Pricing

Commercial Licenses

Thea Render for SketchUp - 1-Year floating license

Thea Render for SketchUp - 3-Year floating license

€ 249,- excl. VAT

€ 599,- excl. VAT

Educational Licenses

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