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Hi there people :) I've got a little problem which I hope you guys will help solve. I've written a step by step tutorial on how my latest image "Villagio" was made... This shuld show you how to make a cityscape in Vue :) It can be found in the tutorials section or by clicking at the attached link. The problem is that Gebe has told me that she think it's best suited for extremely skilled users of Vue, but I only think it an medium (intermediate) skill level is required. Please read it and tell me what you think. It isn't written for beginners, so I hope you'll understand it. If not, please let me know what you can't udnerstand so I can edit it. Thanks :) - Thomas

Great you ask it here Thomas. Because I remember my beginnings. I would have had problems. Let's see what others think. I must say we were 2 to test it at the same moment and we did not know one from each other that we were 2 to test it. That's why the outcoming was funny;-). Guitta

The tutorial is GREAT! This will help for Bryce too. As far as skill level, I am not sure. It is somewhere between intermediate and skilled. I sure will give it a try out! My skill level in Vue is beginner, so I may use Bryce. Thanks! Peggy

Very good! thanks for your time for such a good tutorial In fact, to get such a good Vue user to contribute a written tutorial is not easy. Thomas, I really appreciate your artistic works, your starting tilt camera view work from primitives, boolean, great textures with procedural bumps and your unbeatable ligthing setup......:) Ed

I think you did a very good job on the tutorial, Thomas; I found it easy to understand. And not all tutorials are or should necessarily be aimed at beginners; those of us who have used Vue for a while find tutorials handy too! One thing that would add value for me, especially the page about the additional lights, is a screen capture of how you placed your lights with the buildings visible (not the plants), so we can get an idea of where you put them. Great job; thanks so much for doing this tutorial for us!!

Outstanding tutorial. I think it goes between intermediate and advanced. In a beginner tutorial you need to go totally step by step with what you do in Vue. I think the level of detail you provided is perfect for this level of tutorial. Beautiful images too - wonderful detail and composition with that camera angle. Scott

Great picture ; don't know for the level of difficulty ;=) Yves

Thomas, this is a great tutorial, and can help an advanced beginner become better... Great work...

Great tutorial but i think the beginner / advanced should be placed on another level. This tutorial could be adapted to a lot of rendering package, not only vue so i would say it is a very easy to undestand tutorial, very well written (so beginner in that aspect) but it requires some "mastery" of the software you want to use to achieve your impressive result (in this case i would say an advanced level is required in Vue, requires to be "fluent" with materials, lights, atmospheres, boolean operations etc...).

I'd label myself an intermediate/beginner to 3D art and I found the tutorial to be very informative and well laid out. Thank you. My only want for the tutorial would be two images on page nine. One showing the final lighting effect as you have now, but another showing the placement of those lights. I realize this wasn't a lighting tutorial, but page nine just looks a bit like a magician saying, "Now that you can all see the Eiffel Tower, work on making it disappear. Like so." poof "See?" Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the tutorial, and the magician simile is meant wholey as a compliment, because that is definitely what it appears to be from page 8 to 9; magic. This is a fantastic image as usual for you.

The way it was written felt like we were at an art exhibit and you were explaining your piece from a designers perspective. The tutorial had a nice flow to it. Im a beginner myself with only a basic familiarity with all the features. I enjoyed and followed the tutorial with no problem. The intermediate should have no problem with this exercise. Yes, it would better be classified as an Exercise. e.g., This is how it was done now using similar techniques try this exercise on your own.

The tutorial was very well written and very informative enough so that I will try it out. I do think the tutorial is more on the Advanced side of Intermediate. Too bad there is not a rating somewhere in the middle of the two. Fill

IMHO. if you wanted to turn it into a excellent beginner tutorial you would have to expand the boolean, texturing and lighting parts. Beginners will not get that part. Even the trees as bushes. You got to step right threw it step by step for beginners. Your about 20 pages short for beginner. Ya intermediate advanced. If you expanded just the texturing and lighting a bit it would fit intermediate. Like stand back for a second and ask yourself what are you trying to teach? How to build this scene? You haven't done that. You jumped over complicated parts. Add a few more pages to smooth it out.

I'm telling you the basic tips you need to create a cityscape. Please tell me what you think I'm missing :)

If it was me I'd do one page on booleans. Show a picture of what the wire mesh looks like. I'd probibly do two more pages on texturing showing how it was done and pictures of the material library showing the settings. The lighting. You never showed a screen shot anywhere of where they are sitting, why you put them there or anything. Show a picture of just that and screen shots of the lighting settings. This is where people will have problems. Just look around here and see all the questions people ask about those topics. If you fix those areas almost everyone will be able to attempt this project and that's what you want. Right? Like this tutorial is like 4 in one and you only explained one. Now you don't have to go into great detail with the other 3 topics but you have to at least give some detail even links to more tutorials for further reading would work. You can also fix it really easy by adding about 5 more pages.