I've noticed the same graininess with bumped area's. Bumps and discplacement in Vue are best done with normal maps. Just check the displacement block in bump settings and load your normal map in the function editor. I use Pixplant 2 to make normal maps. make sure u set to object paramatric, for accurate results. Here are some good links for tutorials.

Geekatplay™ Studio, Resources for 3D Artists. Tutorials.

Tutorials for the 3D Artists. Largest collection of original content from Geekatplay Studio by Vladimir Chopine.

(www.geekatplay.com)

http://www.renderosity.com ( search tutorial section On Vue )

Greetz

Hi Adam,

I to have been playing with Vue for a few weeks now, and I can tell you that it's all in the Lighting.
GR is the best setting but also the slowest one. I've attached a handy tutorial on render settings in Vue. Hope this wel help you. I always prepare scene in Vue till I like it and then I render It in the external render. Its faster then the internal render.

Greetz From Holland

Vue render Settings

Hi Everybody,

Here's a Winter Cabin I modelled in Sketchup and render in Vue. I've been working on lighting of architectural models in Vue. It's a tricky thing but getting the hang of it. its al in the Global radiosity settings Love some feedback on the render and the model.

Greetz from Pugz

Here's an update on my model and render. I decided to make a new design and expand the Schnitzer_Bruch House design. This version is on steroids . Tried some pp in photoshop but i'm not quite happy with the result. Needs some tweeking.

Vue also has a displacement option. You can use a normal grass texture with a displacement map connected to it in the function editor. Set materials to object parametric. ( otherwise displacement will be off )
Hope this helps. And the grassy places pack is a good option to.

Greetz from Holland

Hi everybody,

Thanks for the comments. I've posted this render on Cornucopia to ( Vue Forum ) and I've reached the Cream of the Crop section for the first time with this one

Hi Solo, thanks for the comment. Love your render to. Funny things is that I'm currently working on a Bridge house, but a more modern design, with metal panels and iron beam structure.
I agree that there a noise in some area's of the render, but I rendered it on Superior settings so I don't think it has something to do with AA. I think its caused by the area lights.

But I'm still struggling with architectural materials. wood is no problem but steel and brushed metal are hard to do in my opinion.

Greetz

Hi Everybody,

Still practicing with Sketchup in combination with Vue. I modeled it from a Photo I saw on somebody's Blog. Still working on the scene but I think it's going in the right direction. Modelled in SU 7 pro and Rendered in Vue 8 Xstream, No pp just raw Vue output. I'm still struggling with architectural textures and bumps. Would love some comments on the render and modeling.

Greetz

Hi everybody,

I wonder if anybody has some good metal textures to use in Vue. I need metals like brushed metal and metal for beams in architectural scene's.

greetz from The Netherlands

Why would we be mad because we are Dutch? I'm proud to be Dutch. We have a rich History and great social benefit system. We are the ones who founded NY and most americans are decendents from the Dutch. I agree that the 10 km speedskating can be boring but speedskating is a sport the Dutch practice for a long time ( since 1225 )so we are very proud of our sport

Hi Everybody,

Mike was right. The E is missing on purpose. It's his artist name. Don't blame me for it haha

Greetz

Thanks for the feedback . I was wondering If the pic was that bad because of the lack of comments.
Logo design in Sketchup and rendered in Vue. aplied a black and white logo to the distribution of the ecosystem.

Greetz from Holland

Hi Everybody,

Made this for a friend of mine. He's a upcoming music producer and it's his logo ( Wich I designed to ) Love some comments on the render.

Greetz

Here's a new render of the treehouse design. I'm working on a new design now. Hope to post this one soon

Greetz from a snowy Holland

Hi Everybody,

Been working with Vue for a couple of weeks now and this is my first decent ( in my opinion ) render combining SU and Vue. I'de love some feeback on the render and modeling.

Greetz

I only used Sketchup in Two images. The winter scene ( building ) and the Windmill scene ( the windmill ). My goal now is to combine sketchup designs with the landscaping from Vue. Hope to post some results soon.

Greetz

I'm using Vue Xstream 8. In the winter scene I wanted to practice materials positioning so i tried to cover colorful trees with snow. I have wintertrees also but that's to easy
But Vue is e realy good app. Once you've tried it you become addicted. very fun to play around with.
Now i'm trying to combine sketchup with Vue and maybe other render app. Thanx for the nice comments.

Greetz

Hey everybody,

I've been playing with Vue for the last two weeks in my spare time. Here's the result. The first renders I made following some tutorials from Geek at Play. the tutorials really help me getting to know Vue. The last one with the Windmill is my own idea because I wanted to make a picture representing Holland
I would love some comments on the renders since i'm just starting Vue.

Greetz from Holland

Hi everybody,

I have a question about animation rendering in Vue. I've made a small animation of an airplane flying. I wanted to render it so I put in the settings at Animation render options. I'm using the external render option, saving as an Avi and selected to render the whole animation. Now the problem. When I hit the render button it only renders 1 frame out of 339 ( i think ). Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I'm using Vue 8 on a Core to Quad with 4 gb.

Greetz from Holland.

Hi Everybody,

I recently started to take a look at Vue. I think the workflow from SU to Vue is realy easy. First use plugin called View to Vue, then export model as OBJ. In Vue import model -> edit object-> weld and split ( then you get a list of materials by name. Then load the exported camera view as a Phyton script.

Al materials you make in Vue can be saved to make your own collection. I you're interested in Vue, check outy the tutorials at Geek at Play.

Hi Everybody,

I had the same thing with Vue. Downloaded it once but the interface was so confusing in relation to sketchup and let's say Kerkythea, that I didn't try to make a decent render. But when I recently saw some Tutorials at Geek at Play http://www.geekatplay.com/tutorials.php I started to dive into it.
Siolo gave me some good pointers. I used Vue 8 Xstream and the render didn't took very long. Thing about 1 hour. Materials are done in SU and most are from CG textures. Hope to post more Vue renders soon.

Greetz frm Holland