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Hello there I am testing the new Thea Render plugin for Rhino. Despite of we all can use it right inside Rhino Viewport is a must. But i found a very annoying issue on that. (anyone with same problems, please help for solutions or explanation) 1º - Thea Render works like charm inside Thea Darkroom (that open window when press that specific toolbar button). 2º - Thea Render inside Rhino Viewport, after 1 minute of rotating/moving/zooming objects always crash rhino. (the crashdump file don`t show any text inside!!) 3º - When any polysurface object have some rhino texture inserted from a jpg image, Thea Render wont show that texture. That object will be rendered as black color (really annoying).
4º - In Thea Darkroom everytime we try to adjust some rhino glass texture it wont refresh and the solution is close Darkroom and open again. 5º - Insert Textures from Thea Render Material inside rhino it is very complicate to change it properties (impossible to change texture scale, rotate, fit).
The solution seams to be in Thea Material Lab and for that you have to redraw a copy from a texture. The solution for all issues that i mentioned is to install Thea Render Studio and always export your work to there. Of course it would be nice to have Thea Render 100% function inside Rhino, but i give them a discount right because it`s an fresh and immature version for Rhino.
Overall: Thea Render presents very accuracy images in less periods of time. I have been testing some other render engines, like V-Ray, Artlantis, Maya, and Thea Render is the best for what it costs. I have a CLEVO P150SM LAPTOP + i7 4710MQ 2,4-3,4Ghz + 16gb RAM + GTX 780M + SSD 256 Samsung Pro + Windows 10 PRO x64 this machine have handle a complex model that i made in past with 1,5GB size and a lots of clean and closed polysurfaces. Rhino textures are not supported. How do you assign textures to objects? Is it a Rhino material?.
I have tested in different ways. Then i realise that Rhino textures are not supported in TheaRender inside Rhino. This should be written in PDF Manual!!! Otherwise, i try to add some Jpg Texture to some polysurf object and Thea wont recognise it.
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Then i`ve try some specific Rhino textures, like wood for example, and TheaRender still not recognize it; all objects are show as black in Darkroom. It seems that I don’t get an event when UV is changed. I need to check this.
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Integrating the whole Thea Studio functionality inside a plug-in is not an easy job. But we are working on making the best one!!. Of course it would be nice to have Thea Render 100% function inside Rhino it`s an fresh and very new version for Rhino; i perfectly understand. And i give you all a big thanks for the enormous effort for get Thea Render integrated inside softwares like Rhino. I always prefer to use Thea Studio as it is more stable and reliable and more complete.
A big Thanks. Hello again I found another issue It`s became impossible to export that model (previous image above) from Rhino to Thea Render. I mean, when pressing Export Model Button inside Rhino, it will not save any file and take to much time reading. It not crash, but it not save any file.
Do you know alternatives to proper export from Rhino directly to Thea Render, without loosing detail or any layer? Again sorry then i try with sketchup, and i test like this. Export that model from Rhino to Sketchup (with export to skp file) Open the exported file inside Sketchup and it will open without any problems. Then i try to export from Sketchup directly to Thea Render, within Thea Render Toolbar Options. Again it will take to much time and as i write this message, it not finish the process yet.
(i think it will go crash) Then i try some other process I went to an earlier old file, a interior house 3D model made in Rhino, which i export to Thea Render (i dont remmenber if export that in OBJ or whatever, then i open that complete project, render and textures processed inside Thea Render and when i press Render Interective, Thea Render wont perform like before. I wonder if this is because now i am working in Windows 10 Pro x64 (DirectX 12), and that model was made in Windows 7 Pro x64 (DirectX 11)???
Or this could be because, i start that Thea Render project in version 1.4 and now i am using Thea Render v1.5 (isn`t it suppose newest versions became more stable?) This is awkward because even Thea Render Studio became unstable. The Interface start to intermittent, popping the tool buttons on and off. 3D Model made in Rhino + Renders made in Thea Render v1.4 on Windows 7 Pro x64 (this complete model is about 700MB of Thea file) - My Laptop had a nice behave when working on this big and complex file). Hi Architex, which bugs did the new version solved? You can have Rhino basic materials with Rhino textures and they will render fine (they are baked). I noticed that Rhino basic material and textures are not updated during interactive rendering but they will be in next release! Exporting models means that you can export a model like a chair but not the whole scene.
Scenes have other components like lights, cameras etc. The model that you tried to export above looks quite big. Thea models are saved in.mod.thea files and are small objects (like a table or a bed) which you can save in you library and import them to different scenes.
Exporting the whole house is probably a misunderstanding of this functionality About the export layers or objects is an options that is not available and I’m afraid it will not be in the future either. Thea for Rhino is a fully integrated plug-in and not an exporter. Having options to control the scene structure will completely break interactive rendering and everything else. I’d like to have the scene that makes Rhino crash but a stripped down version of it if possible. I hope my answer helped!! Cheers, Dimitris.
Hello and thanks for helping. I think you did not make properly zoom to that piece. Try to choose: CLAY 50%. Camera film hight 35 Focal lenght 50. Ambient Occlusion enable distance 10.0 Intensity 40.0 Disable sun and skylight or any other exterior light.
And yes, choose PRESTO AO because it is better for interactive preview. Presto MC and AMC are for final rendering, but they need more samples and more time to get clean like pro rendering. I have been using Thea for long time. Not yet a big PRO like M.I.R.C, or Ronen Bekerman or Peter Guthrie, but i get nice result in Thea Studio for my works. I try to test the same object inside Sketchup and Thea Render result the same small gaps at solid edges. It might be a need of GPU driver updade?!
But i want to keep this options for the last. Like i said, it is the first time i saw small gaps like that in my models/work made in rhino and rendering in Thea. I will test your file to see Came back soon to report.
Lets see what happen.