Geekatplay has created a new VUE tutorial section in addition to the several they have.  It is devoted to tips and tricks to make VUE do what you want.  There are two new tuts over there now.  I think you will find them most useful.

Here's the link.

http://www.geekatplay.com/gary.php

Really nice, thank for the heads up(;

Hey, they were there, now i am getting 404 errors...?

I can't get the tut pages either

Well they're back up now[8:00 AM]...musta been a server glitch.. ...

nope, still not up in my neighborhood(;

Odd that...I right click/open in new window, and tickety boo, there it is.....I guess we're blessed here in the prairies...LOL...or something like that...Pretty damn informative tho and a really good way to restrict an ecosystem....Well worth viewing if you can.. ...

I'm seeing them now

404

Mazak

If my link isn't working for you folks, just head over to geekatplay, click on tutorials and click on Gary's Workshop (top right hand corner just under VUE TUTORIALS)

The problem cause a wrong link at Geekatplay. If you click on 'View Tutorial' the link didn't work. If you click on the picture, the tutorial link load correct :)

Mazak

 Nice useful tip!  This will really come in handy.  Thanks Gary (and Catherine?)

But why doesn't the paint brush populate as thickly as the normal eco populate?

And it would be really cool if those cubes could be locked to the camera and there was a way to update the eco population area during animation frames....but I suppose this isn't possible?

Maybe a nice idea for Vue 7?

The cubes should be able to be linked to the camera so that where the camera moves and pans, the cubes will follow.  Then you can repopulate as necessary..  All of these could be animated.

Very useful tip and tutorial - I tried it out with Vue Esprit 6 - will try it in a render later on

Very interesting tutorials I had indipendently devised the cube technique but I did not know of the possibility of > 100% density so my trials were not "thick" enough.

Just a warning: preview renders are slightly less "dense" than final ones so, if you still have "holes" in your grass field, check first if a final quality render fills the image before cranking density even higher.

Bye!!!

Advance tips and tricks using Vue is a very good idea

Advance tips i thinks should also: how to render broadcastquality with realistic ecosystem and Settings Atmosphere.

The final Render of all tutorials i have seen, are not broadcast: the Pictures has look like "computer".

Here is a new Vue story: Vue for Indiana Jones 4.

I have never seen a tutorial from Vue on the web, that shows this to setup Light, Atmosphere, Color etc. for include the Vue results in RealWorld Pictures or Videos - that would be a nice Advance tip

• How to optimizes ecosystem / Plants, etc. for best visual Quality at minimum Rendertime per Frame/Picture
• Light, Atmosphere, Color for Real World
• Export result with Alpha, etc. for use in AfterEffect or other Postproduction.

Will be nice thanks
Roland

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Here is a new Vue story: Vue for Indiana Jones 4.

I have never seen a tutorial from Vue on the web, that shows this to setup Light, Atmosphere, Color etc. for include the Vue results in RealWorld Pictures or Videos - that would be a nice Advance tip

I am sure that ILM has paid E-On for the development of a custom Vue build based upon ILM intellectual property which is able to do things that in no way we can hope to duplicate with the openly available version.

It is quite customary for large studios to have custom builds of commercialy available programs: e.g. the first incarnation of TG2 was called Engen and was used by Digital Domains for renders like a Motorola phone commercial or Stealth movie scenes.

Bye!!!

I dunno - according to the link it's just an out of the box Xstream.  Only E-On would know for sure though

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I am sure that ILM has paid E-On for the development of a custom Vue build based upon ILM intellectual property which is able to do things that in no way we can hope to duplicate with the openly available version.

That means:
it is not possible to render Pictures in the current Vue for include in RealWorld Movies? :unsure:

I don't think so. Why should E-On this do? I think the workflow and the best settings in Vue and the Workflow or Postproduktion are important AND also one big Point from the Indiana Jones 4 Story:

"...The images were 4000-5000 pixels wide...." :blink:

I have never try this. Render BIG pictures and scale them down! The pictures of all the tutorials are terrible, because they are Render only broadcast to 800*600.....

The best theme: Vue & Realism for the New tutorial section :biggrin:

-Roland-