Thea Render for SketchUp Academic Lab License

Academic lab license for SketchUp integrated plugin. Requires an application academic lab license.

Academic lab licenses are intended to be used by educational institutes only and they cannot be purchased by students. This is a single license that can be used for installation on up to 30 machines (license cannot be used for network rendering). They are single licenses, i.e. they can be installed and activated on one machine only. Proof of educational institute membership is required for confirmation prior to purchasing the product (a scanned copy of faculty id along with university e-mail address is needed for teachers). Please e-mail the necessary documentation to sales@cgriver.com.

Note: Plugin license requires Thea Render academic lab license to be purchased as well.

Thea for SketchUp bundle standard license includes the full standalone studio and SketchUp plugin plus two bonus node licenses. The studio and plugin applications may be installed on up to three machines without being used simultaneously. The node application can be installed on one machine and can be used only in conjunction with the master application during network rendering.

Thea for SketchUp

Main Features

Thea for SketchUp 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. There are already a few libraries of render ready objects.

Interactive Render

The interactive render mode allows you to preview the composition, materials and lights in your scene interactively. It is a valuable help in the workflow, which gives you an immediate visualization of the environment, depth of field, reflections, light distribution, material properties and external Thea models in a scene.

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).

Animation

Thea for SketchUp is able to render animation as it is visible in a SketchUp view. All animation plugins that show their output directly in SketchUp window, while a built-in scene animation is being played, are supported.

Panoramic Images

Thea for SketchUp lets you render a model using a camera with spherical projection. The resulting image will be a panorama  that can by viewed by an external program or a web application. It is especially valuable for presenting interiors to clients. It gives an excellent impression of a proposed solution.

Render Channels

Many SketchUp users posses exceptional post-processing skills. Thea for SketchUp allows rendering a model with multiple images containing separate channels, popularly called "passes". Those channels may include, for example, shadow, depth, direct light, transparency and reflection information. Combining them in an artistic way gives full control over the final image and lets you create otherwise-hard-to-achieve effects.

Export to Studio

Thea for SketchUp makes it possible for user to export the scene to Thea Standalone Studio and take advantage of additional staging tools. Using the 64-bit Studio (currently available on Windows / Linux), one can render heavy scenery in very high resolutions without RAM limitation. 

Superior Image Quality

In every work involving visualization, the natural way of lighting and physically correct materials play the most important role. Thea Render light simulation and our unique material system ensure that all your images will take advantage of these essential qualities. No matter whether you render a simple idea or a detailed product presentation with complex materials the image will tell a whole story for itself. You can focus on your artistic expression while Thea will take care of the final result.



System Requirements

Windows XP/Vista/7/8, SSE2 CPU,
SketchUp 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 2013 and 2014 (Free or Pro)

System Requirements: MacOSX 10.5 and above, Intel CPU,
SketchUp 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 2013 and 2014 (Free or Pro)