Thea Render Plugin 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 (GPU support soon-to-be-available as well) at your fingertips, inside SketchUp, is an joyful experience. The plugin lets you enrich your models with highly detailed three dimensional content, breaking old limitations related to handled model complexity.

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

Download Thea For:

Thea For Windows

Thea For MacOSX

Thea Manual Download

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.

Source : http://www.thearender.com