Thea Render 2.1 Complete | 2.2 Gb
Solid Iris Technologies announces immediate availability of release 2.1 of the Thea Render physically based rendering platform, is the most versatile renderer featuring state-of-the-art Unbiased, Biased and GPU engines.
Thea for SketchUp 2.1:Engine:- Beveled Edges
- Triplanar Mapping
- Presto optimization for instanced scenes without displacement
- Improved overall interactive render refresh rate in the absence of displacement
- New procedurals: Worley Noise & Edge Ramp
- Presto support for all procedurals
- Integration of NVIDIA Optix 6 for RTX cards
- Support for LUT files
- Added Fiji, Ellesmere AMD family in Presto OpenCL port.
- Circle of confusion - for DOF % - is now independent of resolution. Render results will differ now if DOF% is used (same effect only when resolution is 1024 pixels).
- Regression bug fix when computing bump/normal map of a combined texture
- Fixed strength and orientation of normal maps in CPU engines (matching now Presto).
- Fixed difference in clipping when using soft vs hard with scatter(reflection)-only visible surface behind.
- Presto makes now consistent evaluation with respect to CPU engines for various quantities, such as alpha/clip mapping and material weights.
- Fixed sun point light custom evaluation for Presto
- Sun point lights are evaluated on top of sky evaluation now with Presto.
- Corrections with respect to Fresnel Ramp preview generation.
- Added support in Presto for procedurals on area emitters.
- Crash fix for Presto bucket rendering when warming-up in the presence of moving objects/camera.
- Fixed artifacts appearing with Reinhard tonemapping on CUDA display.
- Optimization for Presto procedural area emitter support.
- Fix for Fresnel Ramp in Presto when used in clipping component.
- Optimizing Presto CUDA (5% performance boost).
- Some fixes with respect to Color Ramp texture interpolation.
- Fixing irradiance artifacts in Adaptive BSD.
- Fix for Presto hang in bucket rendering due to bevel mapping yielding zero normal vectors.
- Fixed displacement from parallel view that could yield no intersections at all.
- Fixed sky color in Presto when view is exactly vertical.
- Nlm Denoiser: Added Fiji, Capeverde AMD family compilation.
- Nlm Denoiser: Added Blend parameter.
- Nlm Denoiser: Changes for stereo images.
- Fixed vignetting weight applied from accelerated standard displays (GPU+CPU) when a denoiser display follows (optix or nlm).
- Fixed scaling issue when saving png+alpha.
- Mac: Thea suports now OSX 10.8+
Plugin:Major:- Back Face material support
- Automatic exposure adjustment for Production rendering with a click of "Adjust Exposure" button
- Drag and drop Thea materials to Material Editor
- Material Editor - Texture Properties in a separate window
- New Model tab for objects properties
- Much Faster SketchUp textures handling, especially in 2018+
- .3ds, .obj, .dae import options for Thea Models creation
Other:- Added Settings icons in Thea Toolbar to open Settings Panel
- Camera: Lock for Arbitrary aspect ratio added
- Scene Settings can be cut/copied/paste between each-other. It also works between models (for scenes)
- Interior, Exterior and Adjust now options added for Exposure in Display Tab
- Win: Ensured that unused Presto OpenCL binaries and unused Optix version is deleted at the first run
- Added a MessageBox with information when 'Documents/TheaRenderDataPath.txt' is missing
- Model Tab: "Reflections Visible" option added
- Rendering Window is being hidden automatically when rendering in SketchUp view
- Rendering Window, Material Editor and Batch Render remember their last Save/Load locations
- Thea Browser: Added 'Refresh', 'Install Library', 'Save SKP model with dependencies' buttons
- Thea Browser: When Materials/Models/Skies branch is selected and it is empty, plugin proposes to open Thea's Libraries webpage (just once)
- Added option to Edit Thea XML Model file - it will be saved as .mod.thea
- Fog Density accepts values below 1.0 now
- Bump map slider works within 0-100% range, but accepts higher values entered manually
- Displacment/Motion Blur/MediumSSS control check-boxes added to Rendering Settings
- A warining sign with a tool-tip displayed when a device priority is higher then 'Low'
- Logging of the plugin start-up and a first rendering done in Temp(tmp)/Thea4SU/Thea4SU_Session...log & TheaEngine.log folder. Useful for debugging
Material Editor:- Duplicate Layer - right-click function added
- When switching from Bitmap Texture to SketchUp texture parameters are preserved (Normal/Bump/Tonemapping...)
- Red,Green and Blue Shifts added to Texture Tonemapping
- Layered texture can be removed from texture selector as any other texture type now
- Layer mask can be set now either to Bitmap or Procedural
- RGB or HSV value modification updates also a "current" color in ColorPicker
Fixes:- Improved behaviour of SliderValue controls - they do not change when hoovering above them with left mouse button pressed
- Scene settings are always loaded when new scene is selected from a list (not only when a check-box is marked)
- Material Presets: Fixed bug with external textures not being found in an immediate or '_files' sub-folder
- FBX Materials Editing : Fix for erroneous material selection from a list in case of some models
- Fixed issues regarding unicode texure paths/names. It was affecting locale like Chinese. Bitmap Textures could not be loaded for example, resulting in black materials
- Fix for CRF/LUT files with long names breaking Rendering tab layout
- Animation: Fixed bug with a camera settings storing animation path - making camera point to a random direction
- Material Editor: Texture Projection type is available for SketchUp Texture now
- Win: Installer updates installation size correctly now based on current components selection
Thea For Rhino 6 v2.1:Additions and new features:- Added support for beveled edges.
- Added support for Edge ramp and Worley noise procedurals.
- Added support for triplanar mapping.
- Improved overall interactive render refresh rate in the absence of displacement.
- Presto optimization for instanced scenes without displacement.
- Added support for all procedurals in Presto.
- Added NVIDIA Optix 6 support for RTX cards.
- Extended OpenCL support for AMD cards including Fiji and Ellesmere cards.
- Added support in Presto for procedurals on area emitters.
- Added model browser.
- Added support for Thea proxies.
- Added support for importing and exporting Thea models.
- Added drag and drop support for mat.thea and mat.pack files.
- Improved interactive render refresh rate for darkroom.
- Added support for importing and exporting environment settings with sky.thea files.
- Extended support for rendering in Rhino's render window.
- Added command to save interactive render images from Rhino scripts.
- Added luminance histogram in darkroom.
- Added default render mode options in Thea preferences.
- Added LUT support in darkroom.
- Added manual sun options for Thea sun.
- Added scatter visible option for Thea lights.
- Added support for custom render meshes.
- Added support for importing FBX files with Thea materials applied.
Fixes and updates:- Presto makes now consistent evaluation with respect to CPU engines for various quantities, such as alpha/clip mapping and material weights.
- Corrections with respect to Fresnel Ramp preview generation.
- Fixed artifacts appearing with Reinhard tonemapping on CUDA display.
- Fixed displacement from parallel view that could yield no intersections at all.
- Fixed sky color in Presto when view is exactly vertical.
- Updated material editor.
- Fixed thick glass preset section not resizing.
- Fixed material preview not updating correctly for Thea materials when editing material presets.
- Fixed IR device info in darkroom for high dpi screens.
- Fixed camera lens shift resetting.
- Fixed object visibility and material assignment defined from a layer during interactive render.
- Updated UI for camera depth of field section.
- Fixed crash when opening a 3dm file while rendering.
- Fixed empty bump map applied by material some material presets.
- Fixed batch settings dialog for high dpi screens.
- Fixed server port not initialized correctly.
- Synced render mode and engine between render settings and darkroom.
- Updated Thea toolbar.
- Updated EXR save options dialog for high dpi screens.
- Fixed groundplane texture coordinates.
- Fixed library license not appearing on the license dialog.
- Fixed typo in network section.
- Updated darkroom icons with higher resolution images.
- Fix for camera projection during interactive render.
- Fixed render mode button not updated in darkroom when loading .img.thea files.
Thea For Cinema4D v2.1:Plugin Changelog:- Added:Loading mat.pack files.
- Added:Online Repository for materials.
- Added:Bevel. It can be accessed in Thea Object Tag.
- Added:Windy, Marble, Worley and Edge Ramp in Thea Procedural Shader.
- Added:Triplanar projection in Thea Bitmap Shader (added the parameters cut off and Sharpness)
- Added:Support for LUT files
- Added:Image Alpha checkbox in Thea Material's Clipping channel.
- Changed:Improved per-light UI in Relight Manager. Added a slider bar to manage the power easier and negative values are no longer valid.
- Changed:Thea Bitmap Shader using "Inherit Texture Tag" as default value.
- Changed:In "Add Custom Folder" dialog in Content Browser, the filter name is refreshed based on the chosen Directory.
- Bug Fix:Thea Commands would not appear in "Customize Commands" Dialog.
- Bug Fix:Thea Bitmap Shader projection would be transferred incorrectly in the engine.
- Bug Fix:Scene with many IES lights sometimes would cause a crash.
- Bug Fix:Clearing IBL image in Thea Sky Tag, would not be refreshed correctly in the engine.
- Bug Fix:Display Settings in tonemap parameters would appear greayed out
- Bug Fix:Custom Folder name would not be set correctly when created in Content Browser.
Engine Changelog:- Beveled Edges
- Triplanar Mapping
- Presto optimization for instanced scenes without displacement
- Improved overall interactive render refresh rate in the absence of displacement
- New procedurals: Worley Noise & Edge Ramp
- Presto support for all procedurals
- Integration of NVIDIA Optix 6 for RTX cards
- Support for LUT files
- Added Fiji, Ellesmere AMD family in Presto OpenCL port.
- Circle of confusion - for DOF % - is now independent of resolution. Render results will differ now if DOF% is used (same effect only when resolution is 1024 pixels).
- Regression bug fix when computing bump/normal map of a combined texture
- Fixed strength and orientation of normal maps in CPU engines (matching now Presto).
- Fixed difference in clipping when using soft vs hard with scatter(reflection)-only visible surface behind.
- Presto makes now consistent evaluation with respect to CPU engines for various quantities, such as alpha/clip mapping and material weights.
- Fixed sun point light custom evaluation for Presto
- Sun point lights are evaluated on top of sky evaluation now with Presto.
- Corrections with respect to Fresnel Ramp preview generation.
- Added support in Presto for procedurals on area emitters.
- Crash fix for Presto bucket rendering when warming-up in the presence of moving objects/camera.
- Fixed artifacts appearing with Reinhard tonemapping on CUDA display.
- Optimization for Presto procedural area emitter support.
- Fix for Fresnel Ramp in Presto when used in clipping component.
- Optimizing Presto CUDA (5% performance boost).
- Some fixes with respect to Color Ramp texture interpolation.
- Fixing irradiance artifacts in Adaptive BSD.
- Fix for Presto hang in bucket rendering due to bevel mapping yielding zero normal vectors.
- Fixed displacement from parallel view that could yield no intersections at all.
- Fixed sky color in Presto when view is exactly vertical.
- Nlm Denoiser:Added Fiji, Capeverde AMD family compilation.
- Nlm Denoiser:Added Blend parameter.
- Nlm Denoiser:Changes for stereo images.
- Fixed vignetting weight applied from accelerated standard displays (GPU+CPU) when a denoiser display follows (optix or nlm).
- Fixed scaling issue when saving png+alpha.
- Mac:Thea suports now OSX 10.8+
About Thea Render. Thea Render is a physically-based global illumination renderer of high quality. It is a unique renderer that is able to render using state-of-the-art techniques in Biased photorealistic, Unbiased and GPU modes.
Thea for SketchUp. - Powerful engine combined with the simplicity of SketchUp. Biased, Unbiased and Interactive Render modes with the joy of rendering inside SketchUp view. Enrich your models with highly detailed content, with no limitations.
Thea for Cinema 4D - Thea for Cinema 4D is the perfect companion for Cinema 4D users who want the highest quality photorealistic rendering inside their modeling application. The plugin offers a list of advanced tools while being actively developed to meet the most demanding visualization requirements.
Thea for Rhino. - Thea for Rhino integrated plugin takes full advantage of Thea Render functionality and allows you to create high-quality photorealistic renders within Rhino 6. With advanced features such as interactive render, true physically-based materials, innovative material layering, IES & HDRI light support along with a versatile rendering system comprised of biased, unbiased and GPU engines, rendering within Rhino has become really powerful.
Discover the New Thea Render 2.0 for SketchupAbout Solid Iris Technologies. Solid Iris Technologies Ltd. provides solutions of photorealistic rendering and visualization. It offers Thea Render, a commercial solution that includes biased and unbiased engines, as well as Presto engine that enables high speed rendering through the use of NVidia CUDA GPU technology and CPU based acceleration; and Kerkythea, a freeware software that uses physically accurate materials and lights to produce renders, as well as provides tools to automate scene setup, such as staging using the GL real-time viewer, material editor, general/render settings, editors, etc. under a common interface. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Chaidari, Greece. As of September 14, 2016, Solid Iris Technologies Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Altair Engineering, Inc.
US company Altair has acquired Solid Iris Technologies, a Greece-based tech startup specialising in photorealistic rendering and visualisation, with its high-end solution "Thea Render". The former was already using Solid Iris' technology to provide rendering functionality in its solidThinking Evolve concept design software.
Product: Thea Render
Version: 2.1 Complete
Supported Architectures: x64
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System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even or newer
Software Prerequisites: Rhino 6 SR8 / Cinema 4D R16 and above / SketchUp 2015-2019 (Make or Pro)
Size: 2.2 Gb
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