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

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

• 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

1. Download the latest offical release or use my latest fork release
2. If you downloaded the zip file.
3. Open Blender.
4. Go to File -> User Preferences -> Addons.
5. At the bottom of the window, choose Install From File.
6. Select the file TheaForBlender_VERSION.zip from your download location..
7. Activate the checkbox for the plugin that you will now find in the list.
8. 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

View complete change log.

Thea Render Forum