I would like to ask the "early birds" :-) who already downloaded their V6 copy to give us a taste how V6 renders will look like with spectral clouds, sprayed ecos, GI and more...so please hit us! :-)

Many thanks agiel! Wooow...the clouds are simply stunning and the subsurf.scat. render looks really promising  - keep 'em coming! :-)   

Here is some more caustics from Vue 6i (pre-release). Both are GI lighting:

This with a spotlight and cylinder with water material (the bright ring is the spotlight beam being a bit bigger than the cylinder. Outstanding water caustics, i'd say!
Congrats to the developers!!!

This is a red and a blue spotlight, with a wine glass i made in Silo 3d:

Vue 6i (pre-release) lighting is looking very nice!

Yepp, e-on did a great work judging from these test renders.

wabe has posted a very cool pic over at DAZ with some low lying clouds.  Perhaps we can coax him to post it here as well? ;-]

But all your images in this thread look most amazing, so please keep them coming!

How about poser figures? Does it render faster? Can you get more figures into a scene?

Thanks!

Great preliminary pics Agiel!

How well are the Poser Shaders coming over? - I'd like to see a screen grab of the dials & poser Shader tree within Vue.

Here is another image I made with poser figures though.... it was a little slow to move around at the time but it improved a lot since.

This one was another test for translucent materials.

Awesome translucency test pic agiel! Your creature in the first pic looks photoreal.

Just how long is the order process taking? I paid last night, I've had the payment confirmation from PayPal but tracking my order it is still being 'reviewed' after more than 16 hours :-(

The octopus looks a whole lot better with trans. applied. :)

Has anyone tried SSS on the skin yet.  Also curious to see some results from displacement mapping.

Thanks guys & gals for posting your pics :)

Gill, e-on must be overloaded beyond belief.  I'm coming up on 14 hours myself for a validation on a free upgrade.  I have no clue why a $0.00 upgrade should take so long, but I believe I've read that someone on e-on's end has to manually approve each one.  I know it's hard, but try and be patient.

Attached Link: http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_6_infinite/?page=0

You will see an example of skin shading with SSS in the materials section.

Thanks :)

At 11 am PST, the link to Buy Now is temporarily closed due to the massive number of orders.  :(  

Here is another SSS/translucency test. Also uses the new 'Spectral' lighting model and custon shadow softness control:

(although they cannot be used outside of a spectral atmosphere).

 Exciting stuff. Great clouds + colors and some very hot new lighting tools! When e-on said this verson would be more professional, they sure weren't kidding!

Looks like time i got into to using Dave Burdick's SkinVue - with SSS and such in Vue 6 for him to incorporate into his cool product, we should be seeing some great looking Poser skin.

Wow amazing images guys - can't wait to get my hands on it!

Quote - Gill, e-on must be overloaded beyond belief.  I'm coming up on 14 hours myself for a validation on a free upgrade.  I have no clue why a $0.00 upgrade should take so long, but I believe I've read that someone on e-on's end has to manually approve each one.  I know it's hard, but try and be patient.

I AM trying to be patient but it's worse than waiting for Christmas morning LOL!  Especially seeing all these fab renders in this thread!!

I shall go off to watch a movie, eat chocolate and drink Baileys to cheer myself up ;-)

Gill

Be prepared for a wait!   I have my validation but the servers are 'oversaturated' so can't download at the moment(:

cheers, Susan

Quote - I shall go off to watch a movie, eat chocolate and drink Baileys to cheer myself up ;-)

Now that's an idea, lol.  I like the way your brain works, Gill! ;-D

I should add that this picture has ZERO postwork done outside of Vue.
The color correction and 'glare' from the sunlight were added using the postwork step available inside Vue.

Great first look renders, what about the render times!

No postwork, only a low cloud layer and sun behind the rodluc freebie.

Many thanks for the preview renders guys; fantastic clouds/lighting wabe!

'cloud city' took less than 20 minutes on a P4 3 GHz.

Cool wabe! Auch, my ears! :-)

Thank you wabe.  I do love the low cloud plane one. :-)

Please also show some displacement mapping before/after on certain objects, especially on terrains...

Hi,

The images look awsome!!

sorry for the stupid question,

Could some please tell me if you get 5 free hyperview render nodes for vue 6 like with vue 5?

Ivan.

First proper Vue render rather than playing with new stuff. Not my usual style of picture in fact the nearest I've ever done to a nude in three version of poser and three versions of vue. 

May I present NVWnbaSA for your delectation and delight....

22 Minutes to render.  Spectral atmosphere.  User render settings.  No post work.  Varous types of cloud used.

I like the seagulls - would make a good rendition for the movie "the Birds" :)

Why are the clouds so dark on the underside of some of the pics I have seen.
 Can they be made whiter and get rid that dark looking under them.
 Summer clouds are fluffy and very white where I live.     What I am seeing resembles more of a storm type cloud but then again the color isnt right for those in the pics I have seen. :)

Well you can adjust that part of the cloud, just that i like it darker sometimes.  :)

...has anyone actually tried importing POSER specific P6 skin shaders, by Face_off?

...Anyone tried any TOON Shaders from Poser?

...What's this I've heard that P6 shaders can be rendered in Vue 6 Inf with the Poser 6 render engine? WHAT does THAT mean? (Is this ALSO referring to the OLDER Poser Phong renderer?)

...Can Poser 6 shaders be SAVED and used in Vue 6???

Well i have not done much testing for Poser in Vue. But from what i heard the shader tree is now correct in Vue, not phong. Also Vue has a cartoon material that comes with it now.

ABout clouds.... I found that they tend to be very white in plain sunlight.
You can adjust their density, roughness, turbulences, cover, and color among other things.

The screenshot shows poser and vue side by side, with a render in both applications.
Note that the outline is not reproduced right away in Vue as it is a post processing from the Poser engine. The material itself is reproduced correctly. The outline could be re-created with a Python script I suppose (maybe dburdick will confirm :) ).

From what I can tell, poser doesn't have to be open at the same time as Vue, but you will need to open poser if you want to edit poser materials used in Vue.

The system is using the 'link to poser' previously used to automatically update poser scenes in Vue after changing wthem in Poser.

I didn't display them here but you have the option to edit the pose from inside Vue (all morphs and pose controls are accessible).

I do not have Face_off's materials, so I couldn't test them. If you know where i can find free toon shaders for poser, I will be able to  make a more elaborate test.

nevermind... I just looked at the Freestuff and found a few toon shaders for poser I can play with :)

To lighten the undersides of spectral atmosphere clouds, you boost their internal ambient light slider. With that control and the density, opacity and other sliders, you have pretty complete control from white cotton ball clouds to dark storm clouds.  Plus altitude, height of layer, amount of fine detail and more.

And there is a spectral atmosphere high cloud type for use above your camera and a low cloud type you can fly your camera above or through or lower down around your mountain tops.

Cool idea for those seagulls Walther! One for the notebook.

I noticed something related to the import of toon shaders. The material looks completely black in Vue if the 'line width' in Poser is more than 0.0.

I will report that to e-on to see if it is a limitation of the SDK provided by e-frontier or simply a parameter that was overlooked.  Other than that, it works rather smoothly from what I can tell.