THEA RENDER SKETCHUP DEAD SOFTWARE IS NOT

Thea Render Sketchup Dead Software Is Not

I mean, Monster 'Blender' Truck can be used for driving to the grocery store, but it's not the most practical thing, is it?The Honda can be tricked out, 'pimped', 'souped up', a thousand ways to do amazing things even better than the Monster Truck, but it's still not a monster truck.That said, it is true that SketchUp has changed now that a new company owns it. I'm wondering, is Sketchup is still the tool to stay with.It's so much faster to model with than Blender but if it's fading then I don't really want to invest more money on it, better spent on learning cyclesEverything I model I render with twilight so I'm wondering what the twilight community thinks.Anyway, as said, if this topic has been laid to rest, please point me to the detailsComparing SketchUP and Blender is something I avoid, as it's like comparing a Honda Accord with a Monster Truck. Having biased, unbiased and interactive render modes including GPU support at your fingertips, inside SketchUp I'm guessing that people are either using the Pro subscription or sticking with 2017 make?I could be overthinking this but the community really built sketchup over several purchases by different companies and now the community's work only works with the prod version. Even though this software is not the best when it comes to exporting to external software for rendering, I actually found that there can be quite an efficient workflow once you know what to be aware of.I was thinking of going Pro but I noticed that they had a subscription system now I'm not a fan of subscriptions as I tend to skip versions till there is something new I want, then I'm happy to pay for an upgrade.Thea Render for SketchUp v2.2 Build 1015.1877 Win x64 Thea for SketchUp is a combination of powerful rendering engines of Thea with the simplicity of SketchUp. The 3D model was done mostly in SketchUp.

It still does not measure up to Daz 3d, Blender or several others for handling massive models.The problem with Blender (and Daz 3d, and many others) is not lack of features.If the people at blender.org would put out out a front end UI for Blender that's as easy to use as SU, I'd switch. The results are beginning to become obvious.As far as SU being an effective platform for CG art, sci-fi and organic or environmental modeling especially, It is only through the efforts of the SU community, even to the point of community members becoming members of the dev team, that SU has become as good as it has. Meanwhile the heavy duty modeling and rendering software giants have actively embraced the aforementioned communities. The pattern for this was already set years before, by some of the members of the AtLast devteam. Trimble spurned the already disfavored Sci-Fi, Concept Art and Environment art segments of the community. In a few years? Who knows? The future has yet to be written.The problem with SU has been from the beginning, a lack of willingness on the part of the devteam to write 3d modeling program optimised for anything other than simple, small scale architecture.

Apologies if I sound bitter. Building and designing the future.No, I am maligning the attitudes and shortsighted, narrow-minded thinking of the executives at Trimble, and certain members of the devteam.Anyway, there's my two copper ryo on the issue. In your own way, you do the same thing we Sci-Fi otaku are doing. Far from it! You folks do amazing things, and are practicing your own form of art. I'm tired of getting kicked around by an unsympathetic devteam who seems to think that architecture is the only worthy use for 3d CG.I don't want to give the impression I am maligning architects.