- #Thea render material pack how to#
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I use that for networkrendering on an old MacPro that only has a 8800GT which isn’t supported, but two Xeons that can still contribute.ģ.) It’s the coolest implementation of networkrendering I ever used.
#Thea render material pack how to#
I understand how to setup the network rendering (at least it seems straightforward from what I’ve read), and this may seem like a silly question, but the computer that is setup as the server in the network renders along with the slave computer, correct? Do you need to have two slave computers to actually do network rendering?Īnd one last question, is Presto the only engine that will give you an estimated time calculation?ġ.), 2.) No, that’s the beauty of Presto, it falls back seamlessly on CPU if the GPU doesn’t suffice and is still quite effective - no change in quality at all, only rendertime will be slower. Will the lack of a recognized GPU effect network rendering? I still seem to be able to render using Presto, without any kind of warnings as well, but I wonder if not having the GPU aspect of Presto will impact quality as well as render time? Any thoughts on that? The old laptop has a Quadro FX 880M and even though the specs say it has the correct CUDA version it still isn’t recognized by Thea. I just installed Thea on my old laptop because I was hoping to try out network rendering, so obviously I have a few questions. So far the Thea people don’t seem to check this forum here.
#Thea render material pack manual#
I often prefer manual unpacking since then I can organise things as I want them.īut if it doesn’t work for you, it may be better to report on the T4R forum directly: Material packs (.mat.pack) have to first be unpacked, either through Thea or with for instance 7zip - all the packed Thea files are basically. The only thing I can think of is: do those folders contain Thea materials (. When I added new folders externally I had to close the browser and re-open it to see the changes, otherwise it worked as expected and I was able to select the folders and see the materials in them. Since that one also is the same in Thea Studio, I find it easier to keep things synced that way.īut I now tried it and it worked here when I added my main custom material folder to it (I do not mix my own materials with the factory ones) - I was able to select materials from all the subfolders. Hm - I normally never use this Browser, since there is a better one available in the Native Thea Material Editor and I can edit there at the same time as select presets. Note that the 10xx cards aren’t officially fully supported yet, although there is a temporary solution already, but they may not yet perform as well as they will. Here is an overview of results with the Thea benchmark tool beta that may be helpful: The GTX 980 TI is still great, but if you can afford it, I’d look at the Titans or the 1080. My current motherboard can only hold two GPUs, but my next one will definitely have four slots. Today I would rather buy a new graphics card than a new computer. Some years ago that would have been 10 to 100 times as much at that level of quality (I used to render such images overnight with Thea TR1 or TR2 and still do sometimes if I need perfect results for complicated scenes).
#Thea render material pack full#
Now I can do product shots in full HD in about 2 minutes on my average machine with Presto MC that look good enough for communication with the client, the final I may let cook 5-10 minutes. Cards with lots of RAM, out-of-core rendering for instance in Redshift (hopefully Thea will have that too in the future), bucket rendering in Thea so not the whole image needs to reside in RAM (important for large scale renderings) and the CUDA and OpenCL specifications have matured a lot as well. But nowadays there are solutions for everything.
I was very sceptical regarding GPU rendering for a very long time, since cards back in the day didn’t have enough RAM to make it really work and there were not many options in software. And guess I am getting a proper card, too.
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