Geekatplay Lighting Tutorials Now Available

All the Geekatplay Vue lighting video tutorials are now available:

• Basic lighting rules
• Sunset
• Underwater
• Make it glow
• Lighting in forest
• Neon sign
• Dark forest
• Lights and properties
• Night street
• Light attenuation and variable color
• God rays
• Lens flare
• Haze and swamp
• Lights in clouds
• Architectural lighting
• Soft shadows
• Indoor lighting
• Sun and soft shadow
• Animating lights
• HDRI
• Light gel
• Green forest

Cornucopia 3D Ancient Egypt Winners

The winners of the Cornucopia 3D Ancient Egypt competition have been announced:

1st Place - Death of the Queen by Giovanino

2nd place - A difference of Opinion by SilentOne

3rd place - Boats on the Nile by MacEriu

Honorable Mentions: Anachronism by Robert Netz and The Pharao Egyptian Lighthouse by winwahner

New Vue Lighting Tutorial from Geekatplay Studio

Geekatplay Studio have a new video tutorial for Vue: Light attenuation and variable color.

Vue 7.5 Video from e-on software

My first video tutorial has nothing on e-on's most recent video though...

Running a Python Script in Vue 7 Infinite

I've been meaning to update my old tutorial on running a python script in Vue for at least a year. Here's the first part of the update - a new short video (and my first outing to YouTube)...

3D World - August 2009 and Vue

The latest issue of 3D World (issue 119 / August 2009) is now on sale in the Uk and includes a short tutorial in the Questions and Answers section on using Hypertextures in Vue to slice cross-sections through objects. A really neet trick from Eran Dinur that I don't remember seeing anywhere before. The files for the tutorial can be downloaded from the 3D World web site.

Please Mind the Gap

I'm in the process of switching my web site to running on wordpress. A lot of the hard works done but there may still be a few bits I've not quite finished moving properly and there may still be the odd problem for a couple of days. So in the mean time Please Mind the Gaps when Boarding the Train. Hopefully the Vue News Blog shouldn't have any problems.

Vue 7 xStream and Cinema 4D Training Video

asileFX has a new 276 minute long set of videos on using Vue 7 xStream and Cinema 4D available to buy from their web site.

Making Rivers that Follow Terrain Heights

Silverblade has posted a new tutorial for Vue showing a method for making a river look good in a terrain that isn't flat by having it follow the terrian's heights.

CGSociety Challenge XXIV - Secret Agent

CGSociety's Challenge XXIV - Secret Agent runs till 10th September and e-on software is one of the sponsors with copies of Vue 7.5 Infinite and Vue 7.5 xStream amongst the prizes.

Cinema 4D Sidegrade Offer

I've heard from a couple of people that Maxon are offering a 50% off sidegrade offer for Vue users to get Cinema 4D. It's not listed on the offer page but apparently they've asked and been told that Vue qualifies.

Vue Complete 7.4 - Build 43145

A new update is available for Vue 7.4 Complete, Pro Studio and Esprit Build 43145 is now available from the e-on software web site for registered users.

• Various fixes and optimization with layered EcoSystems.
• Improved rendering speed with Dynamic EcoSystems.
• Corrected saving directory path mismatch when rendering with Rendercows on MacOS.
• Various fixes an improvements for network rendering and batch rendering (external renderer).
• Improved memory usage for network rendering.
• Fixed a possible size issues when rendering animations using Tile rendering.
• Improved 3DConnexion support.
• Fixed a possible crash when hiding sun from render while rendering spectral clouds.
• Fixed Python module (esp SkinVue support).