Thea Render Revision 350

[giannis]

Dear all,

here we have a new revision posted in the usual place:
http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtop ... =61&t=1849

In this revision, clay rendering works correctly with user reflectance, takes into account material bump mapping and does not override zero-roughness materials (such as perfect dielectrics and glasses).

The key bindings on texture button & chip are the same as in RV341. Also, automatic clip mapping works now out of the box when you apply an image with alpha channel, say to diffuse component.

There are also some I/O improvements and fixes for the pivot of groups; now pivot saving is fixed and correctly taken into account in instancing brush.

Important: clients using 3dsMax plugin are kindly requested to wait until revision is linked from our website, or otherwise update to 0.4 version of the plugin.

best wishes
giannis

[Rombout]

He Giannis,
in the mac version you have the manual 2 times included. This adds about 9,5 mb to the additional download!!!

[giannis]

Yes, but some users may choose to throw away the dmg image, so manual should always be also accessible in the bundle contents.

best wishes
giannis

[Rombout]

true, but i would consider to only put inside the thea folder or seperate folder as i posted lately. We can't acces files in the thea app from thea itself. I think everybody deletes the dmg image cause you would get a lot of them when installing stuff and keeping them!

[giannis]

Although I'd like to keep it simple on Macs, we will think about a packaged installation. It's also needed for easy upgrade (without having to export/import licenses).

best wishes
giannis

[Rombout]

oke it's real simple now to install. But hardly reachable from within thea!

[pckmark]

oke it's real simple now to install. But hardly reachable from within thea!

Are you thinking about installing new updates from within Thea?

[PINOY]

I want to upgrade to RV350, Do i have to upgrade my sketchup plugin?
At the moment i've been reading plugin issues with MAC platform.

[giannis]

Updating to next revision for Thea is always good. The application updates
are not synchronized at the moment with the plugin updates. Generally
speaking you can update the application without updating the plugin,
that's ok, if you want.

best wishes
giannis

[rickgraham]

Updating to next revision for Thea is always good.

Question - when you update, do you also update the manual to reflect any additions to the program? If so, I would recommend adding the version number to the front page of the manual. If no manual updates with version updates, why?

Rick