Thea Render Revision 568

[ThomasHelzle]

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant

What can I say - thank you sooooo much!

All those small things are very very useful and appreciated!

And I don't complain about the big ones either

Cheers,

Thomas

[massimo]

Thanks for the new revision.
Just noticed: when you hovering with the mouse over a texture in the texture "scene" panel or on a material in the bottom browser you don't have anymore the full name/path displayed. That was a very useful feature IMO.

[ThomasHelzle]

I'm currently testing the new build and notice that my 8 core Xeon MacPro 2008 running Windows 7 64 Bit is only rendering with ~70-75% CPU use although Threads are set to Max where normally I was used to seing solid 100%.
Anything I can do about this?

EDIT: I restarted the machine, reloaded the scene and get the same thing...

EDIT2: I set Threads fixed to 8 and still only see 70% CPU use...

But the Environment building speed is amazing!
And I like all those little additions.

Cheers,

Thomas

[victor]

hmmm to bad that 1.2 Colimo isnt ready yet?!

Colimo 1.2! will be released tomorrow at morning we've found a small bug in modo script using his native renderer.

[Hikaru]

This revision seems a big step ahead for Thea maturity. I feel the program lighter and more responsive to user.

And there are a lot of new UI features I just have began to use and realize. HD prevs really make difference.

As soon as my workload go down a little I will check all new stuff, and maybe, Collimo integration, sounds great.

Best wishes Thea community

[ThomasHelzle]

Another find: was something changed about stopping a render?
It seems to take a very very long time after I hit the stop button.
It's a single object (polygon heavy) using TR1 in 2560x1600px resolution.
Takes about 1-5 minutes to stop.

Cheers,

Thomas

[Rombout]

i did change some icons already?!
I found these more appropiate and in the style of thea, i also popped in my own no preview window again

[Bob James]

Sorting - Oh YES!!!!!!

[giannis]

hi Thomas,

speed should be 100% of course, but I will check again. We 've found a bug just before a week for linux OS
and this may be relevant.

Another find: was something changed about stopping a render?
It seems to take a very very long time after I hit the stop button.

It should actually take much less now!

It's a single object (polygon heavy) using TR1 in 2560x1600px resolution.
Takes about 1-5 minutes to stop.

It might have to do something with the resolution / display. Perhaps you have accidentally enabled glare?
It might also be something specific with the scene. Would it be possible to pack the scene and send it?

best wishes

[Zacchia]

Thank you very much for the new version of thea! Many new things to learn!!

Yesterday I made some "speed tests":
v1.0.10.505 TR1 100%
v1.1.01.568 TR1 80%
v1.0.10.505 BSD 100%
v1.1.01.568 BSD 80%

That means v1.1.01.568 is 20% faster then the older version. About this I am a little disappoint because it is not close to 100% like told... I do not know anything about this and I do not want to seem arogant it is just that for me the speed is still a very important factor. I can imagine that maybe other scenes work faster. But in the scene I used are most basic materials. It is an interieur scene.