Hi all, Has anyone successfully used Thea with Bongo? I’ve tried to render Viewport (the Viewport using ´Thea Render) but that only results in black frames. [image] I’ve also tried using Thea Render directly, but that won’t render at all (it tries for some 5 seconds and then quits the job withou…

OK, I got it working, somehow. :slight_smile:

Thank you @MarcusStrube for pointing me to this manual which had overlooked. Anyway, here’s a rubber seal experiment I tried with Thea (first time ever using Thea). Fig. 1. Rubber seal, Bongo animation with 45 frames -> AVI took 7.5 hours on a i7 3930, 3.2 GHz 12 core with one Asus GTX 970 Strix. …

[image] RIL: Rubber seal, Bongo animation with 45 frames → AVI took 7.5 hours on a i7 3930, 3.2 GHz 12 core with one Asus GTX 970 Strix. That seem rather slow… I cannot give any advice here, but I think rendering a single of those frames shouldn’t take longer than a few seconds. So it’s eithe…

I used the wrong engine. It took only 8 minutes with non-terminated Presto (AO) and a few seconds more with Presto (MC). Thank you for the hints on where to find the best information. The Thea site is a bit confusing, to say the least (only Rhino’s ditto is worse… :slight_smile: ). // Rolf

[image] RIL: The Thea site is a bit confusing, to say the least… I think the rendering industry people’s attitude towards documentation, manuals and real-world examples is generally absolutely disgusting. :wink:

Thea Render works with Bongo, no?

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MarcusStrube October 26, 2016, 6:50am 3

Hi Rolf,

the manual for Thea for Rhino V1.5 says something about Bongo:

Topic		Replies	Views
Bongo Animation using THEA? Bongo	12	977	February 3, 2020
Animation in rhino6 Bongo	10	848	May 22, 2019
Bongo stops animation after one frame Bongo	14	2765	July 9, 2018
Thea Render v1.5 for Rhino first issues Rendering	25	8241	August 17, 2016
Thea for Rhino plugin? Rendering	13	2929	January 9, 2017

Thea Render works with Bongo, no?

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