Vue 3D Environment Competition 2009 Finalists

The Competition Finalists in the Vue 3D Environment Competition 2009 have been announced.

Making a Render Intense

Silverblade has posted a new tutorial about using postwork to make a render more intense.

E-on Software to Preview Vue 8 Professional Solutions at Siggraph 2009

E-ON’S SIGGRAPH 2009 PRESENTATION SCHEDULE PUBLISHED

July 24, 2009. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software, the leader in Digital Nature solutions today announced it will be showcasing key new features of its upcoming Vue 8 professional solutions (scheduled for release later this year) in New Orleans, during the Siggraph show, August 3-7, 2009, 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, distributed bucket rendering 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. To make it easier for people to come and visit, e-on software is giving away 300 free registration passes to the exhibition hall (click on the link below for instructions)!

www.e-onsoftware.com/about/event/Siggraph2009.php

Siggraph 2009 Presentation Schedule

Professional speakers, Ami Chopine, Vladimir Chopine and Nicholas Pellegrino, will be highlighting Vue 8 with Infinite and xStream product overviews, and will also present a number of typical case studies throughout the whole show: 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.

Siggraph attendees can start planning their visit to the e-on software booth based on the presentation schedule available at:
www.e-onsoftware.com/about/event/Siggraph2009.php

Terminator Salvation and Vue

e-on software has a spotlight on their web site about how Whiskytree used Vue to create shots for Terminator Salvation.

E-on Software News - July 24th 2009

e-on software's latest newsletter is now available.

3D Artist Issue 5 and Vue

3D Artist Issue 5 includes a full page Vue advert on the inside cover. Inside there are reviews of Ozone 4 and Vue 7.5 xStream. Vue 7.5 xStream gets a high praise and a rating of 9/10 while Ozone also does well getting a score of 8/10.

Vue 7 Infinite 7.4 (Build 43993) Beta

A new beta update for Vue 7.4 (Build 43993) is now available. The following is a list of bug fixes and improvements included in this update:

• Improved Dynamic ecosystem population and scaling.
• Improved rendering speed of Dynamic Ecosystems in HyperVue.
• Fixed a possible crash when populating a metablob.
• Improved OpenGL cloud texture calculations.
• Fixed corrupted preview of plant species.
• Improved 3DConnexion support.
• Improved align tool (backup support).
• Improved Poser support(especally for dynamic hair and on Vista).
• Fixed preview color reset to green when adding an existing material.
• Improved tiles in animation.
• Fixed wrong bump mapping onto UV-mapped mesh objects.
• Improved use of resume render data when launching an external render.
• Improved license server support for Hypervue.
• Automatic output files renaming is enabled only for external rendering modes.
• Fixed a possible crash on exit on MacOS.
• Fixed a possible reset of picture & animation output paths when reloading scene files on Mac computers.
• Fixed scale issues when using DEM file.
• Collada objects are now scaled according to their internal unit and the internal unit of Vue.
• Collada objects can now be automatically resized.
• Fixed bad scaling of objects when using the Gizmos in the object properties.
• Added Affinity/Repulsion setting in the form of a percentage.
• Fixed a possible crash when hiding sun from render while rendering spectral clouds.
• Fixed a possible issue with recomputation of pivot coordinates when replacing an object in a group.
• Fixed reset material modifications when editing a sub-material from the basic material editor.

Importing Sketchup's Cameras into Vue

Solo has posted a python script for Vue that imports Sketchup's camera's into Vue for overlaying lines or styles.

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.