Attached Link: http://www.varian.net/dreamview/dreamtools/vue/

Sixty-six original 3D models in VOB format for Vue d'Esprit are now available in DreamModels 3D: Vue d'Esprit Goodies, arranged by category for easy browsing. http://www.varian.net/dreamview/dreammodels/vde/ Five of the new models are in the Vue Free Stuff area here at Renderosity. :) Six new tutorials have been added to DreamDesign: Vue Explorations (thanks to Mike - LOL!) Learn how to use Vue d'Esprit to create elaborate low-polygon decor, break glass, create a waterfall, make magic color changes and even more tricks! Also check the "Trees With Personality" section to find another new way of handling the SolidGrowth trees! http://www.varian.net/dreamview/dreamdesign/evd/ Remember, all my Vue d'Esprit related items can easily be found from *one* URL: Treasures d'Esprit, linked above. http://www.varian.net/dreamview/dreamtools/vue/ AND... For those who enjoy PlantStudio (or for those who don't yet know about the program), I've added a new web area for my PlantStudio-related content called Digital Greenhouse, and through it, you can reach a number of items that will help you in adding a wide variety of vegetation to your 2D/3D scenes. Digital Greenhouse http://www.varian.net/dreamview/dreamtools/plant/ Hope you find something useful and/or interesting in the new goodies. Comments welcome! Please enjoy! :) Varian

Thanks, Varian. I am enjoying the stuff I downloaded. Actually, I was having some trouble figuring out Vue's strange way of storing things in it's own libraries. I wanted to get all that stuff from your site, in addition to all the other great stuff all organized into folders and what not, and then alll the materials and all... 66 models! Man, you're killing me! Ya see, I gotta be organized... I can't have fun with Vue knowing I have 66 new models sitting somewhere out of place! ;) Thanks Varian! The new tutorials are cool, too. :) Cheers, Mike

heyas; wow, varian!!! :) thanks for all the cool stuff! mike: go to load an object, a vue object, and down under the list of categories, it says something like 'add.' you have to have a new directory pre-made. find that and add it (i think you can name it whatever you want), and then it will always appear in the vue object listings. (i think... you might have to save it somehow...) this also works with the materials. hint (from guitta): 'add' the vue plants directory; that's where they store their materials.

You're welcome, Mike! LOL, I love giving people dilemmas like yours! grin I think you got the answer on the eGroups list, but in case others are baffled, too... To add new directories/folders for objects, materials, atmospheres, etc., what I do is use Windows Explorer first to create the folders where I want them and move whatever items I want into those folders. Back in Vue: 1 - open the Object Browser (or Atmosphere or Material Browser) 2 - select New File 3 - navigate to the new folder you just created. Open it and select any item inside that folder. 4 - Vue will ask you what you want to call the new collection; the actual name of the folder will be preset to be used, so you can just OK that or type a different name. 5 - Vue adds the new folder and shows you the applicable contents. If I had everything stored in a "3D Objects" folder, I'd go nuts trying to sort through it each time I'm looking for a particular model. So I've got zillions of categories set up for storing items. :) P.S. You can create new folders for Vue anywhere, inside other folders or even on another drive, just as long as you intend to keep it in place. Once you've shown Vue where the folder is, Vue remembers the path to it.

Heh...I was posting about the same time Bloodsong did! Sorry, didn't mean to repeat the same info! And, you're wlecome, Bloodsong! Hope there's something in the bunch that you can find useful. :)

Thanks, both of you, but yeah, Guitta beat the both of you to the punch, and I have it all straightened out now. I actually spent a LONG time arranging models and texturing them, so I could have some look pre-assigned to everything, at least as a starting point rather than to have a bunch of gray objects. Some of those models of Varian's have alot of parts. And ya know, I'm still not done, but like I said, for me it's real easy to forget what I have and what I don't. Today for example I found a US Navy Helicopter model I forgot I had. it has like 400 some parts which all need materials assigned. And as luck would have it, all the parts are named with numbers and nothing at all descriptive. So thanks Varian, for part names sich as "cabinet", etc. ;) Cheers, Mike

Hey, congrats on re-finding the helicopter! Could be useful in an image. When you download one of my VOB objects, the materials should all be present already...they may not be "the" materials you want, but it should look like the rendered preview image. If you open the Material Browser, you'll be able to see all the materials being used without needing to poke through the model parts. Of course, if you downloaded a DXF model, that won't have materials. And you're welcome, re the parts-naiming. I learned early on that particularly when working with primitives, if you set up something and don't name it, you won't have any idea later which "sphere" or "cube" is which. Using relative names saves a lot of work, and it's also helpful later on, like if you just want to change the color of that trim-piece...now where is it? Ah, there it is, the piece marked "trim." :)

Varian, Yeah you're right... I wasn't so much talking about your models, but others, and many of which were in different formats which I had to texture and save as .vob to have in the object browser window, not to mention the ones of my own I've made. So far simple stuff like glasses and vases and all that newbie type thing, but currently I'm working on entire rooms and things of that nature. Not in Vue, but in other programs. Vue does booleans great, though, so when I want a boolean, I use Vue. Hopefully soon I'll have something to give out too. :) I mean to say I have alot of models I've downloaded, and it's easy to get confused. I' glad yours' come in Vob format with your website in the browser; at least I'll be able to remember which ones are yours'! :) Ya gotta excuse me... I'm burning my candle at both ends these days.....LOL Cheers, Mike

LOL! No problem, Mike. Some days, I'm lucky if I remember my own name! :) And yes, I see what you meant, so here's another brief tip that might help you get through the effort quicker. Vue already has several color maps available. So the easiest/fastest way to add materials to the new material-less models, just to improve the preview image... 1 - select the object (or portion of the object) 2 - in the Material Editor (on the right) above the World Browser, right-click and choose Edit Material. 3 - the first tab will be the Color tab. Right-click on the color map (which is likely showing the default beige) and select Load New Color Map 4 - Vue will autmagically point you to the preset color maps. You might prefer to work with the solid colors. Pick one, any one. 5 - move on to the next object (or object portion) and do the same until the object is completely colored 6 - now save the object and it won't be a plain white/beige appearance in the preview image any longer Here's another tip, since you mentioned the memos I add to my objects. If you need to re-save an object (or atmosphere or material, etc.) that had a memo, if you don't include the memo when you re-save, it will vanish. Oh dear! But it's easy to work around that problem. When re-saving, navigate to the directory where the item belongs (if necessary), then click ONCE on the previously saved item in the list. This autmagically puts the memo back into place. Then say OK, and Vue will ask if you want to overwrite the previous item, say yes, and it's done -- and the memo remains. Hm, maybe I oughta start keeping notes of this stuff myself! LOL! :)

Geez...I can't believe I lost the "o" from AUTOMAGICALLY twice in a row! My keyboard must have been automagically hiding it from me! =:o

The Devil had His tail on it as me old mum used to say...LOL