Quote - Thanks for dropping by and trying to help Phoul.  I'm sure every scene needs it's own AA, but this test was all about rendering out one of your samples in Vue to see if I could get results like yours.  The theory being, if they're your settings, you would think you would at least get acceptable results.

So now I've rendered out your animation a second time using the full resolution - untouched and I still get these little black bars that dance around on the water.  Just enough to ruin the clip.  I mean, if you have to be a voodoo priest to get broadcast quality animation, then it's not very useful for the masses.  And yes I get it, you guys that use it for stills love it.  But just try some animations yourself, you'll see what I mean.

So I don't know what to say now.  If I can't get good results with your settings, I feel like I just wasted my money.  I was guessing that you use the Vue plugin for Maya and render in Maya. 

Can I come to your studio for an afternoon to see how the master does it?  You're just a hop, skip and an ocean away.  (just kidding)

Thanks for the tips anyway.  Anybody want to buy a slightly used copy of Vue?

 

Did you even read what Phoul had written? He resized the animation as this is a common method for fast AA, so its not a settings but a resizing method. I guess most people here do that, even the still renderers.

You said you rendered the animation again (why did you render it again when you already got it)),  now resize it and look at the results? Did you really never resize animations or pictures? You can do that with about every graphics prohgram. Your Video editing software should also allow you to do that.

Also if you expected to render in maya from any other version then XStream, you obviously haven't read the program specifications, I'd also recommend at least reding these before you decide for a version. Complaining about that is a bit like "Hey, the piano doesnt fit in the trunk of my Ford Mustang, damn Ford are such crappy cars."

And i don't know Phoul personally, but i highly doubt he's a "voodoo priest". And I dont know what you are expecting by visiting his "studio" (if he has one). But don't expect to have him some enourmous mystical machines that magically turn crap into gold.

I had made several animations back with Vue 4, nothing really worth mentioning, just short fly though of my scenes. Really crap compared to what ILM or Michael Wagner did and dozens of other Vue artists. Did you take a look at the cornucopia animation Galleries? There are some private persons that did phantastic animations, even without calling themselves "studio".

At the moment i lack the time to spend much processing time for animations, my queue is full with lame stills of my upcoming product series. But if these are finished I'll be glad to make a short sample animation and you bet it will be without black bars, blurring or whatever.

In the meanwhile I'd suggest you just post these "awefull" results so we can take a look at what you did, maybe that would help understanding your problems, maybe even see at a glance what you did wrong.

If you still want to sell your vue - just go on. It cant be any easier than with vue. If you bought it to get one click broadcast animations from demo scenes, then you might have missed something.

Post your animations and we will for sure try helping you. For just generally ranting against vue animations i guess this forum might not be the perfect audience.

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