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nigec · Post by **nigec** » 31 Jul 2010, 18:31

Still trying to get to grips with Sketchup..
rendered in Thea, bias render, 101 passes

LeonRegis · Post by **LeonRegis** » 31 Jul 2010, 19:21

What's is 3D and what's isn't? I just can't figure out '-'

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 31 Jul 2010, 19:39

the 3 lighters are 3D the background is a huge spherical image

here's the lighter in Sketchup, which is the lighter in the foreground..

theuns · Post by **theuns** » 31 Jul 2010, 21:13

looks great nigec... didn't know sketcup can do such nice modeling...

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 31 Jul 2010, 22:56

Thanks
most of the model is extruded faces, the offset tool and a plugin to do rounded corners.. I haven't tried rendering it in TS but got nice results in Carrara

RAYMAN · Post by **RAYMAN** » 01 Aug 2010, 11:18

theuns wrote:looks great nigec... didn't know sketcup can do such nice modeling...

There´s so many incredible plugins for Sketchup it can do about anything.
Great work as usual Nigec and some great renders with Thea !
Peter

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 01 Aug 2010, 12:47

Thanks Peter

Most of these plugins work with the free SU7 or earlier, there's a free obj exporter that also works.
I don't really export models much for use else were, Thea isn't that fussy, but when you export to TS or whatever you have to careful with faces flipping
Anyway here's another if a 1000 instances, I fixed a few things with the lighter

theuns · Post by **theuns** » 01 Aug 2010, 19:15

looks great! all with Sketchup? not bad... will check it out...

...tell me more about Thea?

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 01 Aug 2010, 19:50

Thanks

Thea is Kerkythea's younger brother.. apart from a few of the developers design ideals they have very little in common with the actual core being built from scratch, Thea is a lot faster and I find it a lot easier to use than KT, the material lab is fantastic.

I wont go into the "you must buy!" coz I don't own Fry, Maxwell, vray,etc , for me it will export straight from SU and Blender painlessly, it'll import 3DS or OBJ from TS, Carrara, Daz which is what matters to me.

Its one of those things, TS and Lightworks is great for some renders. likewise Carrara or Bryce, its really hard to do things with global medium effects in Thea, something Vue can do without breaking into a sweat

There is a fully functioning demo for Thea but it has watermarks, if you just want to do photoreal give Kerkythea a try.. if you like I could do the lighter in KT as well?

this is the Thea site:
http://www.thearender.com/cms/"

Kerkythea
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/"

theuns · Post by **theuns** » 01 Aug 2010, 20:17

thanks nigec...

I see it is 16 Euros for the Thea SketchUp plugin but the Kerkythea one is for free...

nigec · Post by **nigec** » 01 Aug 2010, 21:48

Both plugins need the main renderer to work, KT is totally free, can't recall how much Thea costs

Just tried the lighter in KT and Thea, exported from sketchup into KT rendered and saved the scene. Thea can load KT scenes, results were very similar but took 3 times longer

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