TheaForBlender

forked from grakoczy/TheaForBlender

Thea Render is an exceptional quality external rendering solution that is now integrated on Blender as tight as possible. Features such as interactive rendering, materials editing, instancing support make it possible to work inside Blender creating astonishing results with a smooth workflow between Blender and Thea Render.

In addition, we have taken the decision to release the plugin under GPL (open source) that, we believe, fits the spirit of Blender development itself, meaning the plugin is free of charge (Thea Studio license is required).

Code documentation can be found at: github page

What this project doesn't contain

the RemoteDarkroom as this part is not released under GPL license.

Project contains following python modules

thea_exporter: XML class definitions responsible for writting scene into xml format
thea_globals: Global variables, logger and functions to read/write the config file
thea_gui: GUI definition
thea_IR: Functions and classes handling Interactive Rendering
thea_operators: Operators definitions
thea_properties: Scene properties definitions along with helper functions called on property update
thea_render_main: Functions to prepare environment, export frames and implements TheaRender class
material preview scenes in scn.thea format with checker texture
locations.txt file with geographic locations
License dir with the licenses
docs dir with auto generated documentation

System Requirements

OS	Blender	Thea Render
OSX	Blender 2.77	1.5.09.1462
Windows	Blender 2.77	1.5.09.1462
Linux	Not Tested	Not Tested

Installation Process

Download the latest offical release or use my latest fork release
If you downloaded the zip file.
Open Blender.
Go to File -> User Preferences -> Addons.
At the bottom of the window, choose Install From File.
Select the file TheaForBlender_VERSION.zip from your download location..
Activate the checkbox for the plugin that you will now find in the list.
You set setup items for IR render here as well as adding shortcuts, if your OSX user or HDP screen user, you can choose to use Retina Screen, this is for pixel doubling.

Official plugin is available here: Thea Render Forum

Changelog

Version	Date	Change log
0.6.0	10.08.2017	• Add - Made new panel menu align better. i think i will run over all panels and make them more compact. The new panel design have items grouped better together. Makes more it view much easier.

View complete change log.

Official Blender Section Thea Render Forum

Thea Render Forum