I'm new to Vue. Decided to take the plunge after reading 3D World mag article on Vue/Max integration.

I'm an old Bryce user so I feel kind of a traitor. But I've scoured google and geek-at-play and I'm a little dissatisfied with the tuts so far.

Any experienced users out there know of a good tutorial site to get up an running in Vue?

Keep in mind I might be a Vue newbie but I know my way around 3D apps.

the geekatplay ones I've found are pretty good - there's a lot of 'em!  Head over to Cornucopia3d.com, I believe they have some tutorials over there too.  Or failing that, just ask here :biggrin: we are a friendly bunch.

ps - welcome to Vue.  I expect you'll have a blast with it

Welcome to Vue,

I found the tutorials at geekatplay fantastic though maybe a little hard to understand what is being said at times. But still some great tutorials there. The Quadspinner ones are quite good from what I have heard, but you have to pay for them.

Anyway welcome
Jon

You can try my site :)

lots of various tuts, General Vue Tips, Lighting tips etc etc

It's a bit more technical, but for realism, please read my dirt mapping tutorial once you're used to Vue, ti makes a HUGE difference to realism :)

http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/tutorials/htm/index.htm

also some I updated now and then

I also used ot be a Bryce fanatic hehe, but, wlel, you know things went with Bryce :(
Vue was the competition! boo! hiss! :p then I tried it as Bryce was in the doldrums...and here I am ever since ;)

I've a list of sites that have tutorials you might want to check on my site, impworks (and if you find any good sites I've missed I'm always happy to add more)

@ FrankT, **Jonj1611
**The problem I have with geek-at-play is that the tutorials seem a little ad hoc. She knows what she's doing but hadn't practiced before hand as there are a lot of interruptions and there doesn't seem to be any real goal in mind. I find the tuts to be very annoying. Most of the Cornucopia tutorials are the geet-at-play ones.:rolleyes:

@silverblade
Thanks I'll check out your site.

@impish
Thanks I'll do that for sure.

Quote - I've a list of sites that have tutorials you might want to check on my site, impworks (and if you find any good sites I've missed I'm always happy to add more)

Thanks for the Tutorial.
I put one on your site as a comment to your reciepe as PORK FAT Tutorial.

If you know your way around in 3D apps - then - IMHO - Vue for me is, compared to other 3D programs, really one of the easiest, to get started with.
The mentioned geekatplay.com website has it's tutorials listed for beginners and advanced - i don't see a problem here ...

For me starting with Vue end of 2005 - at the time it was at least 6 years ago, since i was working with a few older 3D programs up to 1999 - and no training anymore since than ... Vue
was the easiest program, to learn and use (i've tried a few other available demo versions of 3D programs at the time to compare).

At the end of 2005 good video-tutorials weren't around - mostly text-image-based tuts - so at the time, it for sure was a lot harder to get to learn Vue. By reading a few of those tutorials and reading through many parts of the Vue manual, i got it working better and better - and quick.

But it only took 2 or 3 month of self-training and my first good beginner images came up ...
At the same time i started on Bryce, to see, which one was the one fitting to me the best, but with Vue i came up with better and better stuff real quick, compared to Bryce.
So i stopped using Bryce.

The geekatplay.com tuts should be giving you quick results and a steep learning curves, ones you've learned the basic handling by reading the Vue manual and for instance, loading the Vue sample scenes and analyse them ...
I wished, those video-tuts where around, when i started to learn, but i had to do it the harder way - bu with Vue it was no pain, it was fun to learn !

With Vue you can produce cool stuff in a fraction of time ... but the basic handling of the program still needs a few days/weeks to get used too ... but that's for sure faster, than using most of the other 3D programs available ...

Well, you may find the tutorials at GAP irritating, but they still demonstrate many different techniques or tools in the program.  So for that, they are still worth their weight in gold IMHO

Quote - lots of various tuts, General Vue Tips, Lighting tips etc etc

It's a bit more technical, but for realism, please read my dirt mapping tutorial once you're used to Vue, ti makes a HUGE difference to realism :)

The tuts are nice - but this little stamp of pictures - you see nothing special nothing different. Are this picture anywhere in big size?

Thanks

My apologies to GAP. As suggested I tried the advanced tutorials and they were very informative and well narrated. They were full of meat.

I probably should have said to go for the more advanced ones - Mea Culpa

Actually I can see a difference with those two pics. I suggest you study them more carefully! :)

I'll give you a hint, look at the doorway on the right of the pic....look above it
see the sort of "moire pattern" like effect caused by poor antialising? :)

those pics are real sized slices of a render.

This is original
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1919712

this is with user settings after I figured out better render strategy :)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1924468

compare them. ;)