Thea Render 1.4 released

Solid Iris has announced the release of Thea Render 1.4, their combination CPU and GPU renderer for 3DS Max, Blender, Cinema 4D and Sketchup.

To coincide with the release, new licenses have been discounted by 30-40% until January 12.

Features of 1.4 include:

• Improved interactive render (Thea Presto)
• Motion blur (Thea Presto) – all types of Thea Render motion definitions are now supported by Presto. This enables end users to render efficiently transformation motion blur within a fraction of typical render times.
• Displacement mapping (Thea Presto)
• Render channels (Thea Presto)
• Bucket Rendering (Thea Presto) –  rendering high resolution images with multiple channels is usually an issue for GPUs but Thea 1.4’s bucket rendering implementation, this limiting factor  is overcome with improve scalability as well.
• Relight Support (Thea Presto) – presto now supports Relight which is a powerful feature for producing lighting animation sequences with just a single render.
• Faster Caustics (Thea Adaptive BSD)
• Overall Optimizations – all the CPU engines on Apple OSX and Linux platforms have now up to 25% better performance. Memory footprint has been dramatically improved for Presto CPU.

More on Thea Render’s website or for more details about Thea Presto see their new Microsite.