dose anyone know of a good tutorial for underwater scenes?
of where i could get a free one?

I have one - it's based on Vue 5, but will work just as well in Vue 6.

http://users.tns.net/~mwalter1/caustics.pdf

Then, take a look over at GeekatPlay.  Lots of tutorials and one on underwater.  

http://geekatplay.com/index.php  See tutorial #30

P.S.  My tutorials will not be available on my site for much longer - I will be moving them to ShareCG (they host for free and are quick for downloads).  

Peggy

Excellent links and really good tutorials ! Thanks Peggy_Walters

Dam i can't open the link for the first one.

I had a look at the tutorials on the greek site, but  In Vue 6 Esprite i cant find the option in eadeting materials that lets you create your own ecosystems.

but the underwater one wont run on my pc for some reaseon.

Quote - Dam i can't open the link for the first one.

I can open it... it's in .pdf.

For Vue6 infinite, I don't know, but work good in vue6 XS

i've got it now, thanks for the PDF

Now i need a Tutorial for Vue 6 Esprite forgenerating your own ecosystems like in Xstream

Quote - Now i need a Tutorial for Vue 6 Esprite forgenerating your own ecosystems like in Xstream

If you Esprit without additional modules, you can only populate an ecosystem created by someone else. In order to create ecosystems, either get just the Ecosystems additional module (or Vue Pro).
Bye!!

P.S.: instead of  Bye I wrote Buye!!! great freudian lapsus, isn't it?

Quote - i've got it now, thanks for the PDF

Now i need a Tutorial for Vue 6 Esprite forgenerating your own ecosystems like in Xstream

But.. do you have Vue Esprit or Vue XS ?

Quote - P.S.: instead of  Bye I wrote Buye!!! great freudian lapsus, isn't it?

:lol:

I've reasently got Vue6 Espite And I think i might just go bye that dam modual.

I don't know this version, sorry.. But the process, I think, still the same...

in the materials eaditor under the types of material under the one starting with V there is no Ecosystem like in Exstream so Esprite can not do this (DAM)

well... Do you have some material in ecosystem with sub-marine system ? or do you have nothing like that ?

this water tutorial is awsome, but how do i get a Open Ocean with no ground?
when i preview it just has a wite section at the bottom and when i delete the ground i just get a blue screen

(same thing happends when i try to change the ocean matirial.)

Thanks.

Ah.. and you don't have Espite, but Vue 6 Esprit ... We have 5 vue6 possibles :### Vue 6 Easel – the easy way to 3D
Vue 6 Esprit – the artist’s choice
Vue 6 Pro Studio – for the advanced artist
Vue 6 Infinite – the stand-alone solution
Vue 6 xStream – the integrated solution

this is what i came up with although i don't like it that much.
It's to dull and not clean enough and isnot very real.

The better real scene is to make a photograph.
Vue 6 is a program for to creat a virtual scene, but if you want to have a realism in your image, with the textures, bumps and function, you can have some very realist image, but still virtual. See in the gallerie general here and I'm sure you will have a lot surprise...

Do you have the Vue sample scenes installed ?

There should be at least two underwater scenes for training and check, how it's set up.
You could even use the atmospheres or whatever as base starts for your own scenes to be changed as you like it.

And there is, too, a scene with a ocean wavy surface, produced with the function editor, could be used as a base water surface to hover above your scenery and to send light through it's surface for water light beam effects or whatever...

Folk use HAZE or fog to simulate underwater conditions ;) 

to give "caustics" you can use a light gel applied to a spot light.

Hey Gang - A little off-topic here, but I'm having a sudden issue with Vue6E, specifically around underwater scenes, and am wondering if anyone has run into this. My main camera is disappearing from the scene and vue won't allow me to add another one. This is happening regardless of whether I build the scene, then add the water, or whether I start the camera below or above water level. Has anyone ever run into a disappearing camera before?

Strange - check your options setting (File, Options) and look at the display tab.  Maybe uncheck both the stop camera to go below clipping plane and clip objects below clipping plane.  Maybe the first is unchecked, but the second one is not - so once camera goes below the water is not displayed...

It should always still be on the browser list though.  If it is disappearing from there - that would be a tech support ticket.