The VUE thread

Gaieus

Is there any way to play with all the bells and whistles?

"The PLE is for personal, non-commercial use only, files cannot be exchanged with other PLE users and are not compatible with other versions of Vue, renders may be watermarked and carry a logo."
Other than this, it's fully functional.

solo

I'm getting ready to do an animation for a project, I decided to use Vue for this task. I probably will not get the oppertunity to post the final animation as I have signed an NDA already but in setting up the animation I am doing a few simple tests with simple objects in order to get certain effects and timing right. I will post some low rez animations here so that if anyone that uses Vue ever needs such an effect they can just ask me.

Wind effect on plants, ball to represent a car driving past plants on road side.
[flash=640,360:3f6vgueu]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/bHbUcbce1hg[/flash:3f6vgueu]

Gaieus

This is great in Vue. However... So however, the draft would "suck" the plants towards the vehicle instead of blowing them away when it passes by. But I guess that's also feasible.

thomthom

I really think that VUE would be useful in my office for when we have projects with lots of landscape. I just need the time to get into it.

Gaieus

I'm also planning to use it (or better to say "get it used") on a certain project. BTW Pete, I didn't forget - it's just slow response from the client.

thomthom

I'm downloading the PLE now.
While I wait; I tried the free version, and rendered a simple terrain and some clouds but even at the highest render setting the render turned out grainy. I couldn't find any "advanced" settings to fine tune.
Is the free different from the PLE/all the bangs and whistles-editions?

solo

When you have the PLE I will walk you through the settings as you did for me with Vray on how to get a crisp render.

thomthom

Thanks! I'll look at some of the video tutorial first, (if I can make them work,... seem to be flickering without audio on my machine..)

thomthom

Do I want to install the 32bit version of the product too? Is there any need for that?

solo

Not sure what you mean, do you have 32 bit or 64?

I have 64 bit and not installed the x86/32bit version.

thomthom

I run Window7RC 64bit. It asked me if I wanted to install 32bit. I said no.

solo

Drive by, turning wheels.

[flash=425,265:2vn1n888]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/q4kljK0rCRs[/flash:2vn1n888]

Chris Fullmer

@solo said:

When you have the PLE I will walk you through the settings as you did for me with Vray on how to get a crisp render.

Please oh please make this conversation public when you have it. I've had the PLE for about a month now and I've played with it enough to like it, but I still have problems with render quality and I'd like to get up to professional level myself!

Chris

solo

Will do dat!

Another test, this time animated texture changes.
[flash=640,480:3jphsn75]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/0cPfGSnposc[/flash:3jphsn75]

solo

Heads up to all version 7 users, Vue 7.4 (free) update has been released with many new features.

-Material Painting and effect-driven material mapping in the Terrain Editor
-Cross-shadowing on clouds
-Optional Hide objects from render and disable lights by clicking their icon in World Browser
-OpenGL sky preview with clouds
-Realistic MetaCloud preview
-Dynamic plant display optimization
-Enhanced Multi-Processor usage for procedural terrains, dynamic EcoSystems and panoramic rendering
-SketchUp 7 file import
-Automatic renaming of Standalone, HyperVue- and RenderNode-generated frames if overwriting

-Improved OpenGL display of transparent objects, lensflare, fog, sky previews, layered ecosystem materials...
-Optimized memory usage when creating a new scene.
-Improved the Auto-updating of Vue on MacOS.
-New algorithms to reduce noise in the shadows projected by spectral clouds.
-Various optimizations with Macro edition, particularly on MacOS 10.4.
-Added an option to refresh the sky OpenGL display in the viewport display options.
-Improved several import modules (3DMF, COB, LWO, VRML).
-Fixed possible problems when importing animated Collada files on MacOS.
-Improved Fractal computation in the terrain editor.
-Improved edition of pre-animated groups.
-Optimized workflow with Poser objects.
-Optimized anti flickering technology for animations that include stars.
-Optimized alpha transparency influence with GI shading.
-Improved stability when using the Function Editor.
-Fixed a possible bug when using the "twist" parameter on Vue object.
-Fixed a possible crash when resetting an atmosphere that contains animated clouds.
-Improved Network Rendering with RenderCows.
-Various interface optimizations.

thomthom

meh? I just downloaded the PLE and I get 7.0... ?

thomthom

I'm trying to import a .skp file into VUE7. The .skp is saved in SU6 format. But I get an error message saying it can't read file.
Any requirements to the .skp in order for it to import?

solo

Hmmm, not sure about the PLE version,cannot find anything on the site so far.

Anyway. seen this? Vue used in Terra X movie.

(www.e-onsoftware.com)

thomthom

I seem to be completely unable to import SU6 files. But SU5 seems to work. With simple test scenes it works fine, but when I try to import a real project I find many things misplaced upon import. Any clue to how to circumvent this?

thomthom

Does VUE not handle nested components/groups?