For those of you who don\’t already know, Vue is a 3d app specifically designed for creating natural 3d environments of epic proportions. In this tutorial, we will take a look at the basics, and then cover some handy techniques for creating huge landscapes could be used in both films or matte paintings. We will explore almost every major function of the app, but condense it enough that it can be easily understood in one sitting.
9 comments on “How to Create Epic Landscapes in Vue”
That scene could be much better with a halfway decent atmosphere. And I don’t know what kind of clouds he used, but it looks way too flat. Some Spectral 2 Cumulus with adjusted altitude, detail, and altitude variation would look much better. And I never saw if he went into the lighting tab, but if he wasn’t already, I’d recommend using Global Radiosity and play with the sky dome lighting gain along with the intensity to brighten up the side up the closer mountain and trees.
Also, I’m not really sure if mountain (2nd closest) really fits in with the other 2 landmarks which are only plateaus. I would also change the fog settings. But I’m just being picky here, it’s supposed to be an introductory tutorial so none of what I said needs to be in it anyway (although it should).
Sweet. So wheres the link to your tutorial?
WHeres your tutorial?
Err.. No offense. Despite the fact that most things Darkside said seem alrite to me. But in VUE there are many ways to accomplish similar things. This guy is showing his method. Every tutorial writer does the same. So I would suggest Darkside to present his method in a tutorial. That will be better.
As far as aesthetic criticism is concerned, I don’t agree. This near “mountain is not a mountain its actually the same type plateau. Perspective can be improved by improving the composition. I also want to say that i jut saw Darkside’s “Top of the World” in which Palm trees (the most familiar VUE asset) is right on top of mountain peak far above clouds. That makes NO sense to me at all.
Thats why I always say that CGI is not to acheive “realism” We try to make things “believable”, “authentic” and “cool”. Hence I will like both images , Darksides’ top o the world and this guy’s this image.
again No offense// cheerz
Hi
hope someone can help, which is better/easier/faster for rendering a golf course in 3d max 2009 64 bit with v-ray: vue 7, Terragen 2 with XfrogPlants or onyx treestorm? or none of the previous!? the project consists on modeling one course respecting specific measurements and filling it with local trees species, bushes, some flowers, sand bunkers, water hazards and grass (lots of it!!) thanks!
forget my previous post.. i thought this was a max plugin for terrain molding and vegetation until i saw the tutorial! my bad
Seasons greetings to all of you and best wishes for the coming year 2010. Great way to explain it. Can’t say more than to appreciate what you are penned down. can you show how to grab your rss feed? I couldn’t find how
Great information,I have bookmarked this site to my seo list for future and will keep a eye on your other, Ohhh what do you all think about 3d tv?
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That scene could be much better with a halfway decent atmosphere. And I don’t know what kind of clouds he used, but it looks way too flat. Some Spectral 2 Cumulus with adjusted altitude, detail, and altitude variation would look much better. And I never saw if he went into the lighting tab, but if he wasn’t already, I’d recommend using Global Radiosity and play with the sky dome lighting gain along with the intensity to brighten up the side up the closer mountain and trees.
Also, I’m not really sure if mountain (2nd closest) really fits in with the other 2 landmarks which are only plateaus. I would also change the fog settings. But I’m just being picky here, it’s supposed to be an introductory tutorial so none of what I said needs to be in it anyway (although it should).
Sweet. So wheres the link to your tutorial?
WHeres your tutorial?
Err.. No offense. Despite the fact that most things Darkside said seem alrite to me. But in VUE there are many ways to accomplish similar things. This guy is showing his method. Every tutorial writer does the same. So I would suggest Darkside to present his method in a tutorial. That will be better.
As far as aesthetic criticism is concerned, I don’t agree. This near “mountain is not a mountain its actually the same type plateau. Perspective can be improved by improving the composition. I also want to say that i jut saw Darkside’s “Top of the World” in which Palm trees (the most familiar VUE asset) is right on top of mountain peak far above clouds. That makes NO sense to me at all.
Thats why I always say that CGI is not to acheive “realism” We try to make things “believable”, “authentic” and “cool”. Hence I will like both images , Darksides’ top o the world and this guy’s this image.
again No offense// cheerz
Hi
hope someone can help, which is better/easier/faster for rendering a golf course in 3d max 2009 64 bit with v-ray: vue 7, Terragen 2 with XfrogPlants or onyx treestorm? or none of the previous!? the project consists on modeling one course respecting specific measurements and filling it with local trees species, bushes, some flowers, sand bunkers, water hazards and grass (lots of it!!) thanks!
forget my previous post.. i thought this was a max plugin for terrain molding and vegetation until i saw the tutorial! my bad
Seasons greetings to all of you and best wishes for the coming year 2010. Great way to explain it. Can’t say more than to appreciate what you are penned down. can you show how to grab your rss feed? I couldn’t find how
Great information,I have bookmarked this site to my seo list for future and will keep a eye on your other, Ohhh what do you all think about 3d tv?
It appears that a portion of the hyperlinks in the footer are broken. You might want to look around really quickly to work out what is going on there.