Thea Render

Thea Render v4.0: Speed without compromises!

We are excited to announce that our version 4.0 is now available, a huge milestone release for us. We have worked hard on a new render engine that surpasses competition as well as a redesigned user experience that boosts creativity and makes rendering fun again.

Version 4 Released!

Key Features

Thea Render Nitro engine

The all-new Nitro engine was built from scratch delivering phenomenal performance and interactivity. Taking advantage of hardware ray tracing cores the new engine is an order of magnitude faster than our Thea Render Presto engine and supports all modern NVidia, AMD and Intel discrete GPUs as well as Apple Silicon GPUs.

Note: Interactive viewport rendering comparison between Nitro and Presto. Rendered using an RTX 2070 (Laptop)

Scattering

Use the scatter tool to create grass fields and distribute
plants, and trees.

Fur

Cover surfaces with fur strands to make rugs, cloth, and
other items look more appealing.

Reworked user interface

The user interface has been redesigned to improve the user
experience. It is now fully integrated and available in both dark and light
themes.

Currently available in Thea for Rhino

New material editor

A new PBR-compliant material definition is introduced that
supports the metallic/roughness workflow.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Tone mapping variance
Bitmap tonemapping parameters such as saturation, hue, and

gamma can be randomized to add variation to a scene using a single material.

Intel® Open Image Denoise (GPU Accelerated)

Nitro engine is making use of the latest GPU accelerated version providing stunning results and the ability to use it for interactive rendering.

WINDOWS

Windows 8.1 / 10 /11 64-bit, Intel SSE3 CPU (or compatible)

Presto GPU

Nvidia
CUDA Graphics Card (Compute Capability 3.x / 5.x / 6.x / 7.x / 8.0 / 8.6 ) with latest graphics driver
AMD Graphics Card (Beta support for select GPUs) with latest OpenCL and graphics drivers.

Note: for OpenCL rendering, render-on-the-fly displacement is supported only for UV bitmap textures.

Nitro GPU

Intel AVX CPU (or compatible)
NVIDIA: RTX 20 Series or newer (hardware acceleration), GTX 10 SERIES
AMD: RX6000 series or newer
Intel: Arc GPUs A310-A770

Nvidia OptiX Denoiser

Nvidia 5.0 min compute capability required for Nvidia OptiX denoising in interactive rendering.
Nvidia 3.0 min compute capability card required for Nvidia OptiX denoising in production rendering.

Intel Open Image Denoiser