User Manual - Thea Render
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1. Thea Material Figure 14 Creating a new Thea Material 5 6 1 Thea Material Preview The preview settings panel affects the preview thumbnail from the material list The room is an installed scene that is opened to render the material Other rooms are installed like the direct cloth etc Each material can be set to be rendered in different room The threads edit set the number of CPU threads to be used for the preview rendering Default Zero 0 value assigns maximum processor threads thus full CPU capability Custom visualisation in the Rhino viewport can be achieved through the Rhino viewport visualization 16 Properties E Materials Ur Thea Render gt Thea Material 001 5 2 r ee a metal flakes 01 Name Thea Maternal 001 Preview Room Threads Time limit minutes Passes Rhino viewport visualisation Editor Material Brows Material Preset Bump Texture Bump Texture filename Bump Save Thea MatLab Preview Room Threads Time limit minutes Passes 4 4 leather_11 Thea Material 001 he Rhino viewport visualisat Use custom Diffuse Reflection Reflectivity Transparency 4 1 a 5 E Use custom Miror B 100 lt direct 1 HH 5 200 Basic e Diffuse e 0 Figure 16 Thea Material preview settings Copyright O Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA properties The active BSDF layer can be selected2. In the EXR page the multi layered EXR settings can be set 20 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Alpha Object ID Material ID Direct AO GI 555 Reflection Refraction Transparent Irradiance Position i R e 16bit Raw Diffuse Raw Lighting Raw GI lo bit Self Illumination Save multidayer EXR induding all channels Force saving as RGB components F Figure 22 EXR settings 7 0 Update By selecting Update from the Thea Render menu or typing TheaUpdate in the Rhino console the update window pops up From there you can check for new Thea versions and resource libraries and download them 21 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Versions Installed Dependent Unlicensed Most Recent Types Applications Materials Models Scenes Skies Server 9 Primary US Mirror EU Mirror Name Thea Advanced Scenes Birch Trees I Birch Trees I Birch Tree Brick Walls CGAxis Thea Models Exterior Pavements Container HDR_040_Field HDR_041_Path HDR_110_Tunnel HDR_111_Parking_Lot_2 HDR_112_River_Road_2 Harbor_3 Night Sky_Cloudy Stonewall HDRI Studio IBL Leather Metal Flakes Car Paints Natural Stone Slabs Natural Stone Tiles Outdoor Furniture Set Presto Benchmark Scenes Sample Xfrog Library Version 1 0 10 10 10 10 1 0 1 0 10 10 1 0 1 0 10 10 10 1 0 1 0 10 10 1 0 1 0 10 10 10 1 0 Dependencies Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000
3. Loaded Plugins Notes Name Loaded Enabled load the TheaForRhino plugin steps you can perform irem ES Yes 7 eye Sampl Properties Al idleProcessor Yes v manual installation by utilizing the Plugins window Gus a y e e 6 Rhino Options i ender 7 from the menu Tools gt Options gt Plug ins By peter Pie Tosen on 5 5 H Appearance Fica Yes Y selecting the Install button you must navigate to the F Yes 7 7 General folder containing the TheaForRhino rhp _ file ide Processor Installation folder is a sd Rendering C Users yourusername AppData Roaming McNee resort Ja I Rhinoceros 5 0 Plug ins Teton o E Aa to load disabled plugins a gt _ok__J cance Help under a folder Thea for Rhino Figure 2 Rhino Plug ins options window 4 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 4 LICENSING AND ACTIVATION If you have recently purchased Thea for Rhino bundle and have not performed the installation of Thea Render Studio please visit our main download page thearender com downloads to obtain the latest installer for Thea Render Studio before proceeding with Thea for Rhino plugin installation and activation Once Thea Render Studio has been installed you must input in the License Input Form the necessary information required to activate your Studio license Select from Thea Render Studio application menu option Help License Form and in the Main tab insert the license serial for Thea Studio al
4. if multiple exist and then the diffuse and reflection colors in the Rhino viewport can be set with the ones from the selected BSDF layer 5 6 2 Browser Thea Studio comes with a set of materials The first button in the material editor of Thea for Rhino opens a material browser This browser shows all the materials that were installed with Thea Studio On the left there is a list of material types and when selected the materials of this type are shown on the right Custom folders can be added in the browser by right clicking on the Custom Folders entry 5 6 3 Material Panel Editor The editor section of the Thea Material Panel provides abstracts all the details of Thea Render physically based materials and provides the user with a set of predefined presets leaving the option for users wanting to explore and use the physically based Thea material system Figure 17 Material browser Editor Material Browser Material Preset Plastic ES Color A Texture Texture filename Reflection 2 0 0 Roughness 7 0 0 Bump Texture Bump Texture filename Bump 3 100 Save Thea MatLab Open Figure 18 Material editor The first button opens the material browser that explained above The next button is a combo box with the material presets When a preset is selected from the combo box list this kind of material is created and the available edit options are shown below Figure 14 shows the ed
5. Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Thea Studio v1 2 10 0000 Birch Trees Copyright O Solid Iris Technologies A set of 8 high quality birch tree models and 4 fallen leaves models for instancing to dress your architectural scenes ready made with materials and textures During installation two new sub folders called Birch Trees I and Birch Trees II are created under Model data folder In addition we also made a birch tree material library to change the leaves of the birch trees according to the seasons During installation a new sub folder called Birch Tree is created under Materials data folder The library can be installed and used only by licensed customers within Thea Render context Copyright C Solid Iris Technologies Install Figure 23 Thea Render update 22 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies
6. alog When a light is clicked in the Rhino viewport the Thea light properties page is shown in the properties page Depending on the light type the appropriate controls are shown Properties Ur Thea Render O a General Enable 52 Light properties are divided in two categories which are General Shadow Fal and Emittance properties Soft Shadow E Soft Shadow Level 0 2 h The Emittance properties set the color power units efficacy and clic E he att tion The physically based value of the attenuation is the attenuation The physically based value aaa El inverse square which means that the light energy is decrease by Cause Pholons 7 the square distance of the light to the objects Rhino spotlights 22 are converted to Thea spot lights Spot lights have also the Color property of setting the angles of both the hot spot light beam Power 100 0 has constant power and fall off maximum angle after which ta light is not emitted at all o E Attenuation Inverse Square gt 14 Figure 14 Thea Light Editor Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 5 5 Object properties Thea for Rhino attaches some Thea properties to Rhino models properties g Materials Ce Thea Render Those attributes can be configured in the Thea object properties OF ele page The parameters with the blue label are only taken into thes Propenies account when Adaptive BSD engine is used What is more 3 ISIDIE pa
7. der settings dialog In this tab you can see the settings supported by Thea Render distinguished in expanding sections The Sun as well as the Sky can be enabled and set in the Rhino sun section which is located in Render gt Panels gt Sun Or you can use the corresponding button in the Thea Render toolbar 1 Physical Sky Turbidity is a term used to describe the scattering of the atmosphere that is caused by haze The term haze refers to an atmosphere that scatters more than molecules alone but less than fog Haze is often referred to as a haze aerosol because the extra scattering is due to particles suspended in the molecular gas Because the haze particles typically scatter more uniformly than molecules for all wavelengths haze causes a whitening of the sky The actual particles come from many sources such as volcanic eruptions forest fires cosmic bombardment the oceans etc Ozone defines the amount of ozone gas in the atmosphere The standard way to determine the amount of total ozone is by measuring the amount of ozone gas in a column of air and is expressed in Dobson units One Dobson unit indicates 0 01 millimeter thickness of ozone gas in a column The default value in Thea is 0 350 cm Higher values give the sky and the scene a blue color User can define here the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere In the same way as ozone it is measured in centimeters Turbidity coefficient is the power for exponential trans
8. ees 01 Thea Trees 02 E XfrogPlants Custom Folders CMan0018 HD2 O01P05 Figure 19 Importing Thea models 5 7 2 Environment Thea environment sky thea can be imported as well The Thea content browser opens pointing to the installed environment libraries 18 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Installed HDRI IBL Studio HDRI Hub HDR_110_ Tunnel HDR_111_Parking_Lot_2 HDR_112_River_Road_2 i Sky_Cloudy E Stonewall Custom Folders HDR_040_Field sky thea Figure 20 Importing Thea environment 5 8 Changing the Texture paths By going to the Thea Render gt Misc gt Change Texture Paths or running the TheaChangeTexturePaths a window is popped up to select a folder After selecting the folder all the texture paths from the materials as well as the environment point to the new folder 6 0 Preferences Some specific options can be set through the Preferences window This window can be opened via the Thea Render menu It consists of two pages the General options and the EXR options 19 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 6 0 1 General In the general page the default paths of saving rendered image IES files and render settings files can be configured Default Save Image Folder C Users Dimitris Desktop Default Render Settings Folder C Users Dimi trislappData Default IES Folder C Users Dimitris AppData Figure 21 General settings 6 0 2 EXR
9. functionality within McNeel Rhino 5 The plugin enables wide range of features which include o Biased Unbiased GPU render modes utilizing CUDA technology o Physically based material interface uniform of all render modes o Production render and fluid interactive render o Physically based environment Sun Sky o Physically based cameras and lights using Thea for Rhino interface Note that this manual covers plug in settings and options only thus for a deeper and more detailed understanding of Thea Render features such as materials design engines modes please obtain the Thea Render User Manual 2 APPLICATION PREREQUISITES Thea for Rhino requires an existing installation of McNeel Rhino 5 64bit edition and Thea Render Studio 64bit to be available on your computer before executing the plugin installer Installation of Thea Render Studio is necessary as major components of our renderer are provided by the main application Currently the plugin is compatible for all 64bit Microsoft Windows operating systems from Vista onwards 2 1 Supported Rhino 5 features 1 All Rhino models and blocks instances proxies Zi All Rhino lights 3 Rhino Sun Sky 4 Rhino basic materials materials are converted to Thea Render materials when render starts 5 Rhino Environment is not supported Thea Environment has been integrated and should be used instead 6 Both production and interactive render inside the Darkroom are supported 7 During interac
10. he scene instead of the Sun Notice that when IBL is enabled sun get disabled and vice versa Wrapping and rotation are related to the image s position This image is also used at the background 3 Background Mapping adds an image to the background of the scene 4 Reflection Mapping adds an image for the reflection of the objects If we do not enable this option reflections are according to the map inserted at the IBL panel Note for materials that their roughness is close to zero or zero the reflection is based totally on the Reflection Mapping Though for higher values there is an interpolation between this image and the IBL image 5 Refraction Mapping is similar to the Reflection mapping but it affects the refraction of the objects 6 5 3 3 Thea Render Camera The last tab contains the settings for the Thea camera De Te Thea Render The camera settings might be different than the Rhino Rendering Environment Camera viewport settings Film Resolution Syne with Rhino viewport Focal length and projection do communicate with the ein Ea z i l Height 500 5 Rhino viewport but resolution does not Per ain s Focal Length 35 0 This way you might have a small resolution set in Rhino i i 4 a i ens viewport but render images in higher resolution PEES oa Shutter Speed 250 0 Different camera settings are stored for different Rhino Shift X 0 0 z Shift Y 0 0 viewports When setti
11. itor when a Plastic material has been created Color or a texture can be set for the material s color reflection and roughness percentage can be set and finally a bump texture can be added on this material Furthermore materials can be saved as plain material files mat thea or as packed material files mat pack which will add all the textures in a single file The last button opens the Thea MatLab as an external application 17 Copyright O Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 5 7 Import Export Import and Export can be accessed through the Thea Render menu Environment Thea models and render settings can be imported in Rhino In the export entry Thea models environment render settings or the whole Rhino scene converted to Thea can be exported 5 7 1 Thea models Thea models mod thea files can be imported in Rhino They are imported as blocks and thus many copies of them can exist without increasing the scene size When importing Thea models the Thea content browser opens listing the installed Thea model libraries When exporting Thea models the first step is to select the Rhino objects if multiple objects are selected they will be grouped then provide an image for the preview and finally save the Thea model Cr Thea Content Browser Birch Trees II CGAxis Thea Models E Free Samples Outdoor_Furniture_Set ByomO008 HD2 001P 11 BWom0100 HD2 002P01 CBoy0002 HD2 003P01 CMan0007 HD2 002P07 Thea Tr
12. mittance for atmospheric aerosol At this point the wavelength exponent can be defined The default value is set to 1 3 This number shows the average size of the particles in the atmosphere Albedo option can influence the overall appearance of the sky High albedo values can occur for example in winter scenes by the snow reflectance while small values occur at environment with grass Especially in cases with high turbidity settings changing the albedo value changes the overall brightness of the sky 12 Properties U Thea Render Rendering Environment Camera Physical Sky Turbidity 25 Ozone 0 35 Water Vapor 20 Turbidity Coefficient 0 05 Wavelenth Exqponent 1 3 aie afk jaye jaye af af l Albedo 0 5 Image Based Lighting Enable Y Texture Add Texture Texture filename Wrapping Spherical ES Rotation 0 0 Intensity 1 0 Background Mapping _ Enable E Texture Add Texture Texture filename Wrapping Spherical a Rotation 0 0 Intensity 1 0 Reflection Mapping _ Enable E Texture Texture filename Wrapping Spherical e Rotation 0 0 Intensity 1 0 Refraction Mapping Enable lal Texture Texture filename Wrapping Spherical e Rotation 0 0 Intensity 1 0 Global Medium Figure 12 Thea Render Environment settings Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 2 Image Based Lighting It enables an image for lighting t
13. n the Rhino material section Also Sun Sky can be edited in the Rhino Sun Sky section The Thea Render menu is the main entry point for Thea for Rhino features Darkroom render settings import export as well as the license form are the available options of the plugin menu All these options are explained in the upcoming sections 5 1 Thea Render Toolbar Our toolbar provides easy and efficient access to Thea for Rhino features It provides the Thea for Rhino commands alone or combined as well as Rhino commands making the desired and required features centralized Figure 5 below provides an overview of available toolbar icons v OQO O O D O N Opens the Darkroom window This is where rendering takes place and is explained in section ds Opens the Render Settings dockable window It is explained in section 5 3 Opens the Rhino material editor and creates a new Thea material This button is a combination of multiple commands that eases the creation of Thea materials section 5 4 Opens the Rhino Sun Sky window Imports a Thea model mod thea Imports a Thea environment file sky thea Imports render settings from a file Exports a Thea model mod thea Exports the Thea environment Exports the render settings Exports the whole scene scn thea pack thea 6 Copyright O Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 5 2 Thea Render Darkroom Thea Render Darkroom provides access to all our production and interactive re
14. nder modes within Rhino 5 Within this environment you have full access of display variables such as ISO exposure shutter speed f number and many more Thea Render Darkroom has been divided into four major sections The top section of the Darkroom panel provides basic render controls as well as the interactive render controls Render images are provided in the center panel while render controls and display controls are at the bottom r Tr Thea Render Darkroom a eS Production Mode y Unbiased TR1 y Thea camera resolution Lock viewport 4 No Region S SN Mad Pess i 2 0 Display Network Log ISO 100 5 Sharpness Y 50 Glare 6 Blades Analysis Shutter Speed 250 Burn v Ws 20 f number 5 600 Vignetting 7 20 3 Gamma 2 200 Chroma L 20 Channel bd Brightness 1 000 Contrast E Oo 20 0 000 CRF E White Balance K 10 000 Figure 6 The Darkroom The place where rendering takes place 7 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 5 2 1 Interactive Render Controls Interactive Mode Presto AQ Y AQ Thea camera resolution camera resolution Lock viewport L 2 No Region lt GD 4 ES z Figure 7 The top part of the Darkroom Controls for basic render settings as well as interactive rendering controls This part of the Darkroom contains some basic render and interacti
15. nes can be used in production mode They can be used to effectively solve difficult lighting and they are very easy to set up Presto MC AO Presto AO and Presto MC engines can be used for both production and interactive rendering They are mostly used for direct lighting Progressive AMC It can be used both in production and interactive rendering This particular engine uses the logic of an ubiased engine with some extra performance Under the Distribution section the number of CPU threads can be set as well as the network rendering option By enabling the Network Rendering check box the plug in runs in server mode and Thea clients can be connected and contribute to the render process 11 Main Render Mode Engine Core Supersampling Motion Blur Displacement Relight Repaint Clay Render Enable Reflectance Termination Samples Limit Time Limit Distribution Priority Threads Network Rendering Channels Normal Position UV Depth Alpha Object ID Material ID Mask Invert Mask Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Volumetric Scattering Properties Materials Te Thea Render Rendering Environment Camera Production Unbiased TR1 Auto w Ei Figure 11 The rendering settings Cr THEA 5 3 2 Thea Render Environment The Environment tab provides controls the environment of a scene The Rhino environment is not supported Environment must be set from the Thea Ren
16. ng a Rhino viewport as active the ea ee camera settings are updated accordingly Blades 5 Depth of Field _ number 0 0 Focus Distance Fick Focus Distance value 6 96 Depth of Field E Depth of Field Value 20 5 Auto Focus 52 Clipping Near Distance E Near Distance Value 1 0 z Far Distance E Far Distance Value 1000 0 Figure 13 Thea Render camera settings 13 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA Film section contains the resolution film height and focal length settings of the camera The Sync with Rhino viewport button is a fast way to set the Rhino viewport resolution to the Thea camera The focal length corresponds to the distance of the camera lens to the film The lens section contains the properties of the camera lens These are the projection shutter speed shift X Y diaphragm and blades The depth of field options adjust the camera focus When the f number value is O it corresponds to pinhole The focus distance value is the distance the camera is focused on Objects far from this distance are rendered blurred Focus distance can be set both by entering the distance value and by clicking on the Pick button and select an object on the Rhino viewport Z Clipping offers the choice to the user to clip certain portion of the render based on the far and near distance of the camera 5 4 Thea Lights Thea light properties can be configured from a separate di
17. ong with your Full Name and Email please note uppercase lowercase information entry is important as your license key to the entered data To complete the Thea Render Studio activation you need to select the Activate License button and then re insert your Email per original data insertion Please note that a live Internet connection is required as communication with the activation server is essential for successful activation of your license Activation of your newly purchased Thea for Rhino plugin will allow you to enjoy full Thea Render functionality within Rhino 5 To perform activation of your plugin you must insert your Thea for Rhino plugin license key in the License Input Form Plugins Rhino Plugin option and press the Activate Plugin Licenses button figure 4 This product is successfully activated and registered with the Please enter any additional plugin serial numbers you have received following data You can add these serial numbers at a later time as well Full Name 3dsMax Plugin E mail Address Cinemadd Plugin Studio Serial Rhino Plugin SketchUp Plugin Application Figure 3 License Input Form Main Tab Figure 4 License Input Form Plug in Tab 5 Copyright O Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 5 GETTING STARTED MAIN WINDOWS All Thea for Rhino plugin functionality can be explored through the Thea Render menu bar as well as the Thea Render toolbar within Rhino 5 Thea materials can be created i
18. ontrols can be used during interactive rendering only The controls that edit the active Thea camera also update the Rhino viewport When enabled the interactive pick focus distance action gets enabled By clicking on the rendered image camera focus distance is adjusted accordingly Camera rotation By holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse on the rendered a image the camera is rotated Camera pan By holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse on the rendered image the camera is panned 8 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA gt Dolly Using the mouse wheel on the rendered image the camera is zoomed in out A Camera roll Using the mouse wheel the active camera is rolled Pick material Left clicking on the rendered image the material assigned to the object under F the cursor is selected on the Rhino material section Materials assigned to objects must be of type Thea Material 5 2 2 Production and Interactive Render This part of the Darkroom controls both the interactive and production render process Below these controls are explained from left to right order 1 Save the rendered image Many image formats are supported such as PNG or EXR Ze Shows the elapsed time during production rendering 3 Refreshes the rendered image This is particularly important because if the rendering has stopped and the display settings have changed this control will update the rendered image 4 Pr
19. ovides feedback about the render status 5 Starts rendering Production or interactive render get started depending on the selection of the render mode 6 Pause rendering It is applicable only during production rendering When render is paused the only action that can be performed is resume render the start button 7 Progress percentage feedback 8 Stops both production and interactive render lla Fapsed ohom20s Bf Ray Tracing 6 07x4s p Threads 32 i HS 18 Ey Figure 8 The Darkroom controls that controls rendering 5 2 3 Display Settings The controls shown below affect the display settings of the camera They are very important because when used along with the camera settings they can improve dramatically the rendered image Also the channel combo box can show the image in a different channel if this channel was selected before render started For a complete explanation please consult the section 5 4 of Thea Render manual Display Network Log i ISO 100 E Sharpness y 2 m Shutter Speed Burn 7 20 renter E nating 0 z DE Gamma Chroma Contrast CRF White Balance K Fiaure 9 The Darkroom disblav controls 9 Copyright O Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 5 2 4 Network Rendering Network rendering gives the ability to allow multiple computers to contribute to the rendering process Network rendering can be enabled in the Distribution section of Rende
20. physically based unbiased biased amp gpu render engine JOTRHEA RENDER THEA FOR RHINO www thearender com rhino A USER MANUAL Revision 186 Copyright O Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA is AP e PS o ISA 3 2 PPC IO EEE UA SOS dota 3 ZSE ERO gt Cale ndo cia 3 St MO aaa 4 A LCOS MAS ANG CU Va O naaa 5 5 Getting Started Main Windows cccccccccccceseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 6 dul Loca Render LOSE aaa slo 6 OZ ti oo e E E N 7 5 2 Interactivo kender CONTO l Serseri pronoun E E EE RONE E 8 5 2 2 Production a a Interactivo Red rinde 9 A IGA UN E sete e E RES S TA 9 ARA 10 bea Render SELLOS meso darlo dr E Setra 10 Lasa Render Rena ea aio 11 AAA e MA III 12 533 Thea Render Came tiritas 13 a o ON E E E E E euioraneraeeseeceeeevarceeussaeseeac 14 s Bl AN aeo AE eee AA I ee A E A I ee ee ee E E 15 30 Tied Render Material asco 15 o A o II 16 OZ DO ol A E E eee tess an oe euse asaaene aed te eseeeaea rs E 17 OD Material Pan Be CI ON seat E o 17 Sd TPO AA e Pen A 18 PETEA AS A A 18 SLT OA IN O bases a tas seeras teense A EEA E S E EE E A 18 530 Changing tbe Texture palis cristen eaa ene aaa 19 A A uo e 19 IAEE i 0 E PP ee eee 20 A A e e o O E 20 DO TANG APARECIA RPP E e UE genes 21 2 Copyright O Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA L INTRODUCTION Thea for Rhino is an integrated plug in that enables utilization of Thea Render rendering
21. r disabled means that the object becomes invisible and its shadow caster El properties shadow caster emitter material become disabled 9 Fesser Adantive BSD Y i Caustics Transmitter Adaptive BSD WI Visible Invisible means that only visibility changes but the caustics Receiver Adaptive ESD E gt properties might be enabled e g invisible emitter Mask index is used in the Mask channel production Objects with mask index Figure 15 Thea object properties page greater than zero will make Thea for Rhino to produce a separate channel for them when Mask channel is enabled 5 6 Thea Render Materials Thea Render materials creation is performed in the same fashion as Rhino 5 materials When clicking on the Add New Material icon Figure 14 a Thea material must be chosen After the Thea material is created the material editor is shown The material editor is separated is two parts First part provides settings for the material preview while the second is used to edit a material There are three ways to manage material within the user interface 1 Import an installed material from the material browser 2 Choose a material preset 3 Edit it in the Thea MatLab 15 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Q Materials ES No selection A O Start from scratch Start from existing y Basic Material amp Basic Material 5 Blend Material Ss Composite Material Thea Material
22. ring tab in Thea Render settings section 5 3 1 Darkroom has the Network Log page which displays information during network rendering The name IP address and contribution of the clients are depicted on this page Network Log Name IP Address Status Contribution Commits Last Commit Subscription Threads Platform Revision 1 ROME lan 192 168 1 81 Running 5 2 o 111 Thu Jun 25 14 14 01 2015 Thu Jun 25 14 13 38 2015 3 Wing4 1318 Figure 10 Network log page 5 3 Thea Render Settings The render settings dialog can be opened both from the Thea Render menu as a separate dockable window or by right clicking on a dockable window in Rhino and selecting the Thea Render entry This window consists of three tabs the rendering the environment and the camera 10 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 5 3 1 Thea Render Rendering The Rendering tab has all the options needed to set the render engine and its properties It consists of many expanding sections which are collapsed expanded when clicked on the header This helps to isolate the desired render settings and not get distracted by others The main section is the most important one Render mode render engine and some basic options can be set Four types of render engines are supported Biased Unbiased Presto and Progressive Biased Adaptive BSD Can only be used for production render and is based on field mapping and final gathering Unbiased TR1 TR2 Those two engi
23. tive rendering all scene change events are handled such as moving adding deleting objects and lights material assignment to objects as well as showing hiding objects and layers 8 Region render during interactive render 9 Network and bucket render 10 Rhino clipping planes 11 Import export Thea models Currently there are some features not supported but they are to be added in next releases 1 Bongo animation plug in support 3 Copyright Solid Iris Technologies Cr THEA 3 INSTALLATION To perform installation of Thea for Rhino plugin you errr A O i CEE will need to obtain the installer from our landing page o ete ee thearender com rhino Thea4Rhino is about to be installed for Rhino 5 0 Install Thea4Rhino for Just Me Once executed the Rhino plugin installer will enquire o about user access and therefore please make the Click Next to begin installation appropriate selection depending on who you wish i have to access to the plugin The installer will then g copy the appropriate files to the Rhino 5 plugin folder B Upon completion of the installation process you will Figure 1 Thea4Rhino Installation Window need to start Rhino 5 and then from the Render Entry option from the Rhino Menu system you will need to assign Current Renderer to be Thea for Rhino Troubleshooting EY Rhino Options eS In the instance that Rhino 5 does not automatically 4
24. ve render controls Production Mode This is a combo box which can switch from production to interactive render mode and vice versa Production render mode renders the scene without adjusting it when a change in Rhino occurs Interactive mode responds to every change in the scene immediately This combo box selects the render engine to be used in production or interactive mode Interactive mode supports the Presto AO Presto MC as well as Adaptive AMC Production mode supports also Unbiased TR1 Unbiased TR2 and Adaptive BSD Presto MC E This combo box controls the render resolution The default value is set to follow the Thea camera resolution as set in the interface section 5 3 3 Also the Rhino viewport resolution can be set as well as some other resolution presets The lock viewport control can be used during interactive rendering only When Lodcviewport El checked it locks the active Rhino viewport and only this one is used in rendering Other Rhino viewports can be enabled without changing the active Thea camera in rendering No Region Those two controls enable and handle region render during interactive rendering The first control is a button which enables drawing a rectangle on the Darkroom to define the region The second control is a combo box containing all the regions selected for a particular Rhino view and helps enabling different regions without the need to define them again The last six c
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