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Thea Render Overview

What is Thea Render?

Thea Render is the most versatile 3D renderer featuring state-of-the-art unbiased and GPU engines. All the engines operate within the same framework and switching from one to another is just a click away. Thea Render is tightly integrated inside Trimble SketchUp® and Robert McNeel & Associates Rhinoceros®. Find out more at thearender.com.

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Thea Render is the world’s most versatile renderer featuring state-of-the-art Unbiased, Biased and GPU engines. It includes a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system, and its own advanced studio.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Thea Render comes with high quality materials, resources exclusively for licensed users, integration with various modelers, a robust SDK and advanced features such as Photometric Analysis, Colimo Support and many more.


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Altair
Year Founded
1985
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Troy, MI
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4,102 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ:ALTR
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$458
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Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI), empowering innovation across industries.


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Thea Render Media

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

Fast interactive rendering, incredible amount of geometry, CPU+GPU rendering, a simple but effective material system and the deepest integration with Sketchup, make this one of the most important tools to help me design and sell my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

I'd like it to have more procedural features, dirt, bevels and randomizing options for both materials and proxy systems. I'd also love to have an even stronger integration with Allegorythmic's Substance tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Will do what's needed in a great way, specially if you use Sketchup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lighting and material design iteraction is really changing with rendering tools. The fast visualization feedback of Thea's GPU+CPU rendering inside your working viewport, really helps on making us sure of our design intentions by creating virtual mockups in a fast and photorealistic way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

The ease of use and the active community make it a great tool for Architects and Interior Designers. The work flow is smooth and the plugin for sketchup makes it easy to use complex models within thea without having to bother heavy models in sketchup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

Thea is already one of the best rendering engines if not the best in its price point, but it is still a work in progress in terms of development. Needs a little more in terms of model libraries and material libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Interior Renderings. Great tool to make photorealistic renderings of sketches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

The speed of Thea's Presto CPU+GPU engine.

The high quality renders you can get without having to do multiple test renders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

Noise reduction, rendertime beveled edges and multi random materials would be most welcome additions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Thea Render:

Try it! For the Presto CPU+GPU engine you'll currently need a Nvidia GPU. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

A speedier workflow with less time needed for fiddling with settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

I like Thea's speed and quality for my architectural exterior and interiors, versatility of AO and BSD features. Excellent Rhino support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

Team is too silent. Colimo does not support BSD. No BSD GPU support. Just few people know in the industry. Soft shadow calculation is too slow. Gloss material could be faster for environment rendering. BSD could be more optimized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Thea Render:

I can recommend Thea for colleagues as the product is powerful as other well known proven application in rendering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is great for presentations and visual communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

What makes thea so awesome is the deep integration in sketchup and the CPU+GPU rendering. This helps me meet tight deadlines and makes it one of the fastest renderengines on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

What I would like they improve is the integration in other softwares and the effects, better glare, mist, sunflares, ... also a better batch renderer that would let me send on multiple computers while continuing to work on the main computer would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

I render faster then I could before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

Thea Render's quality and speed and logical setup for its material system. It's rendering system is advanced and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

Its integration with Cinema4D, specifically the user interface, needs work. It's cluttered and difficult to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

3D illustration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Majid Y.
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What do you like best about Thea Render?

A unique hybrid rendering engine that let you choose between highest quality to agile speed spectrum of render with less material, light and render setup. I strongly recommend it if you are going to find your way in Viz industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

still not supporting particle system that leads lack of access to fluid simulation and also some other stuffs such as grass etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Architectural visualization industry is my main job and Thea covers almost all I need! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

Ease of use along with feature rich interface makes it one of the best if not the best 3rd party renderer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

Nothing really. Maybe the focus could be equal on both GPU and CPU renderers. But just nitpicking really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Architectural and interior renderings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

Instant render of your scene powered by your different GPU and CPU! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

You have to refresh when you add a light or a object Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Thea Render:

Go, it's really a new experience for rendering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Short deadline are now past history :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thea Render?

The team, they are fantastic at communication and helping the users with their problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thea Render?

Nothing so far, all the experience since day one has been great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thea Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

The speed that I can deliver the projects to the clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.