Does anyone know where I could find some light gels for tree limbs,branches, leaves etc. light gels? Thanks you.

I don't know where you can get these light gels but why would you need them?   You can just put a light behind some trees and you have a similar effect.

I'd like to experiment with gels. Thanks

As Artur says, no real need but if you really want - why don't you make your own?  If you have PS or any other prog like that, just use brushes of trees and branches and save out your image.  Load it into the function editor as you would for any other material

Thanks this was what I was after. Not too used to the function editor yet. Thanks for the info.

I don't understand why one would need to use the Function Editor. I'd just make/paint a black and white image of a branch with leaves on it and use that as your Gel.

Thanks will try that.

Don't forget to double click on a (any)  provided Gel in Vue and then double click again on the Gel in the light Editor. This will give you the Gel Editor where you can load your prepared black and white image and save it as a new Gel.

Any tips on size or type? png,jpg,etc.

It's been a long time since I've done any work on them, but from memory, I think Vue scales the image for you, Any format will do, that is, Tiff, Jpeg or PNG. Also just make the background white and the branches/ leaves black.

Good luck! and happy Vue-ing.

Thank you and the same to you.

Here's what I got needs some work. But I'm getting there.

Here's what I got needs some work. But I'm getting there.

Looks great! I'm going to have to try that myself; thanks for the tip.   :-)

sorry about the extra posts I see no way of deleting them.

Well Im sure youre not the Lone Ranger here. LOL

I still think you'd get much, much better results by simply placing a tree between the light and the object. It would take a very small fraction of the time too.

Gels are normally used as a workaround to get things faster, like, for example, simulating blinds in a window instead of making the actual blinds. Or simulating caustics, instead of spending a long time rendering real caustics. Using a gel for simulating branches and leaves could make sense in a software package that doesn't have trees natively, like Poser. But using it in Vue it's like using 2D painted backgrounds in Vue, IMO it doesn't make sense.

But hey, each to his own! :-)

Quote - I still think you'd get much, much better results by simply placing a tree between the light and the object. It would take a very small fraction of the time too.

Gels are normally used as a workaround to get things faster, like, for example, simulating blinds in a window instead of making the actual blinds. Or simulating caustics, instead of spending a long time rendering real caustics. Using a gel for simulating branches and leaves could make sense in a software package that doesn't have trees natively, like Poser. But using it in Vue it's like using 2D painted backgrounds in Vue, IMO it doesn't make sense.

But hey, each to his own! :-)

Yes I do agree but I was trying to get them working and to understand them. In the end I used a tree. Thanks

To answer your original question (but not in a helpful way) on my hard drive in my personal materials collection.  I've got a huge number of light gels I've made (of varying quality).  I've been preping some of them to post on my web site and was going to start posting them (sometime) along with some new lighting tutorials.  I'll try to remember to include the tree ones reasonably early.

Thanks Please let me know when you do.