Mazak's Road Video and Free Terrain (Car not Included)

Mazak has made a new Video with Vue 7.5 Infinite and is generously give away the scene file of the terrain which he created with GeoControl2 and imported into Vue (Car not Included). He's also included all the texture maps including the road stripes texture map (made with Corel Draw) and the camera animation (Road Run Camera).

3D World - October 2009 and Vue

The latest 3D World (Issue 121 October 2009) includes a two page review of Vue 7.5 xStream.  The positive review of Vue 7.5 xStream ends with a line I felt I had to quote "With a constantly growing set of unique and inspiring features, Vue 7.5 xStream is unequivocally the best natural scenery generation software you can buy".  They've changed how they score products doing away with the old scores of Range of Features, Value for Money and Overall which often didn't make sense especially when you compared the values given to different packages.  Now there are just two scores - one for upgrades and one for new purchases.  Vue gets 8 for upgrades and 9 for new purchase which isn't bad going.

Other than that I've not spotted any Vue specific content in this issue.

Riverside Tutorials from Geekatplay Studio

Geekatplay studio has 3 new video tutorials for Vue

• Creating riverside terrain
• Materials customisation
• Creating custom plants
• Controling the EcoSystem
• Setup plants arrangment
• Setup atmosphere
• Lighting the scene
• Rendering the scene

Avatar Vue Poll

Just watched the trailer for James Cameron's Avatar and there are some scenic shots that just scream Vue at me. What do you think? I've set up a poll so watch the trailer and then Vote. Obviously its all just for fun.

Was Vue used in making Avatar?

Urban Jungle 4 for Vue

Jacob Charles Dietz has a new set of Urban Jungle signs available at Cornucopia 3D.

Vue Python Scripts

I've been updating the Vue Python script section on my impworks web site so scripts that were previously only available from the impworks blog now have pages all of their own. There are also a few new python scripts following requests.

Three new scripts for working with Vue’s Bump Mapping: one to make the mapping negative, one to make it positive and one to invert it on selected objects. A second new set of scripts make it easy to switch between the four different image mapping modes in materials on more than one object and material at once.

E-on Software Previews Vue 8 Professional Solutions at Siggraph 2009

Digital Nature in New Orleans

August 04, 2009. Siggraph New Orleans, Louisiana: e-on software, the leading provider of Digital Nature solutions today started showcasing key new features of its upcoming Vue 8 professional solutions, Vue 8 xStream and Vue 8 Infinite (scheduled for release later this year) at booth 2909.

Vue 8: Digital Nature

Vue is the premiere solution for creating, animating, and rendering natural 3D environments, providing:

• Unrivaled Natural Scenery Creation
• Precise Artistic Control
• Leading Edge Performance
• Vivid Realism
• Immersive Interoperability
• And much more...

Next Generation Features

Capitalizing on breakthrough technologies introduced in previous versions, Vue 8 will also feature a number of important new features such as 3D terrain sculpting, directional displacement, the 3rd generation of e-on’s Spectral atmospheric engine technology (as seen in the above image), and much more.

Come and meet the e-on software team in New Orleans, at the Siggraph show, booth #2909 for further details and product demonstrations.

Siggraph 2009 Presentation Schedule

E-on software, booth 2909: professional speakers, Ami Chopine, Vladimir Chopine and Nicholas Pellegrino, are currently highlighting Vue 8 with Infinite and xStream product overviews, and also presenting a number of typical case studies: Architectural visualization, Creating a virtual set with Vue, Creating virtual sets for games, Digital Set extension, Dynamic Interactions, Integrating Vue in a Maya Pipeline, Matte Painting and Compositing, Prehistoric visualization, Scalable Environment – from a pebble to a complete planet, the secrets of Function Graphs and MetaNodes, Vegetation Customization, Water and Atmospheric Effects.

For your convenience, the detailed presentation schedule is available here:
www.e-onsoftware.com/about/event/Siggraph2009.php

Vue Render Settings Tutorial

Silverblade has posted a new Vue tutorial on Render Settings.