Thea Render is a high-quality physical global illumination renderer. It is a unique renderer that can render using state-of-the-art techniques in biased, unbiased, and GPU photorealistic rendering modes.

Thea Render is a high-quality physical global illumination renderer. It is a unique renderer that can render using state-of-the-art techniques in biased, unbiased, and GPU photorealistic rendering modes.

Thea Presto is an advanced rendering engine that has been written from the ground up and optimized to run simultaneously on GPU (NVIDIA and AMD) and CPU, maximizing your processing power. The engine is tuned for fast interactive rendering. This pushes GPU and CPU computing capabilities to the limit while maintaining Thea Render's high photorealistic quality.

At Thea Render we have created a small number of highly realistic materials using the most accurate physically based models. These models are designed to produce highly energy efficient material combinations.

The physically based material system has features such as an advanced layering system and spectral color selection that are at the heart of the rendering engine. These features allow you to create realistic and convincing renders.

Additional resources:
Material Libraries - additional material libraries
Model Libraries - additional model libraries
HDRI Libraries - sets of high-quality studio HDRI images for lighting
Example Scenes - a folder with several examples
Thea Node v3.5.008.1975 - is a supporting utility that allows any Thea integration to use each machine on the local network to speed up rendering.
Thea Benchmark v3.5.001.1970 is a standalone application that can be used to test and evaluate the performance of your hardware.
Thea Substance Converter v3.5.316.1970 is a tool that will allow you to convert Substance based materials to Thea Render materials.


System requirements : Rhinoceros v6, 7, 8 (x64) or SketchUp (Make and Pro) 2021, 2022, 2023 (x64)



What News?
Added:

Substance 3D materials: Added basic support for transparent materials with refraction output

Fixed:

Fix for materials coming from SketchUp library not being updated live in IR in localized SketchUp versions
Preventing a crash of the plugin when Ruby console was open on startup and closed before displaying Thea UI

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