Instead of discussing what Vue doesn't do, can people who are actually using the pre-release discuss aspects of the new features as Mazak did in another post? I would like some help on creating rain in a still image. I cannot get it to show up no matter how I set the sliders. I believe I must be doing something wrong unless it only works with animation. Since I tried a number of combinations of settings, I cannot post what settings I used here. If someone has successfully used it, could you post your settings and information?

Have not played with rain much yet. But here is an example of flowing water made with particles. It uses collision with the primitives to guide the flow and metablobbing to generate a smooth water mass. Works pretty well.

YouTube link

Ciao

TD

Here a rain test scene. Place some trees for better contrast. 

 

Mazak

Attached Link: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/84286786/Rain.vue

Here the rain Settings and downlod link for the scene:

 

Mazak

 

Attached Link: http://youtu.be/4FJD7tvs6BM

Smoke Test with Vue11 new particle system. Inside the ball is a omni-ventilator.

 

Mazak

Thanks, Mazak. I was able to get it to work following your screen captures. I really appreciate those screen captures.

Won't have this till Vue 11 Complete comes out, so I have a question. Are these new features only available for animation or can you use them in still images as well?

The rain was for a still image.

Quote - Won't have this till Vue 11 Complete comes out, so I have a question. Are these new features only available for animation or can you use them in still images as well?

Particles and weather effects can be used in still renders. However, you might have to set up an animation in order to get the effect you want (flowing water or rising smoke for example).

TD

Where I had gone wrong in creating rain was in not setting up an  animation. After seeing Mazak's screen capture I did and that solved my problem.

I'm glad I can help.
Another cool feature for rain: If you inside a house and you want look through the window, turn on collision for the roof and rain so there is no rain inside the house.
Discovered from Vue Group Germany: http://www.facebook.com/groups/219434964777750/

 

Mazak

This seems great!  Are there options to create other systems than rain or snow? As in can you change the snowflakes to, for example, leaves?

Quote - This seems great!  Are there options to create other systems than rain or snow? As in can you change the snowflakes to, for example, leaves?

The two weather effects that are accessed through the atmosphere editor are "fixed". However, they are just an implementation of the particle system itself. You can set up a partcle emitter in the sky and have anything blowing around you want: leafs, rocks, elephants, cows...  One really nice featire of Vue's particle system is that you are not limited to specific emitters, any material can be turned into a particle source by assigning an ecosystem layer and activating particle motion. Pretty nifty.

TD

awesome!  I wonder what % of the images in this years competition will have snow or rain :D

Attached Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/Spreenix/videos?flow=grid&view=0

Watch the Vue Particle tests by Lutz Lehmann:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Spreenix/videos?flow=grid&view=0

 

Mazak

Watch the Vue11 Particle tests by Vladimir Chopine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5JjXYGWUo&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae0qp3RWGFY&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSyDrnIE7LQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQr1om6jnk

Mazak

I'm hoping to see some YouTube videos of Vue using particle animation that's hard to tell if particles were used.

Here is few videos i uploaded.

 http://youtu.be/bw8vrVPWHlw 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQr1om6jnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5JjXYGWUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSyDrnIE7LQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae0qp3RWGFY

 

I will add more very soon, as well over 100 tutorials "Discovering Vue 11"

http://www.youtube.com/user/GeekatplayStudio?feature=mhee

 

I want to thank all the people who have posted tutorials and videos on Vue 11. It is really appreciated.  Thanks

Here is playlist.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaH1PMiI_7AhaKodSD3QgQY38a4JH7Yz-

Check latest i added ( http://youtu.be/0UmjR8RuzO4 ) problem is rendering them :)

Attached Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmuRguQ4ihE

Quick Tutorial by e-on 360° population:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmuRguQ4ihE

 

Mazak

##### I played last night with a little gem in Vue 11 that I have not seen mentioned much, but that I find incredibly useful: Global Layers. Basically you can assign a layer in a material as global and then add it to any other material. Once added editing any parameter of the global layer will be applied to all material that share the layer. Think about mud, snow, dirt on buildings, moss on rocks, dirt, blood, sweat on figures with many textures. This is great time saver. You can have many independent global layers and the scale, alphaboost and environment effects stay individually adjustable. Here is a simple example: Several spheres with different textures, all share a global snow layer. I changed the color map in one and presto, the snow on all turned to moss...

Ciao

TD

thd777

aye that's damn sweet as I use dirt materials a lot :)

Water drops(particles ) on glass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBk4--XHe1Y

omg......

Vue 11 particle effectors (except magnets which needs a video all of its own)....

http://www.impworks.co.uk/2012/11/vue-11-particle-effectors/

Thank you Mark, for this very usefull reference :)

 

Mazak

My pleasure :-)

When I started I thought I was going to be reporting bugs that they didn't work but its just a case of finding settings that have an effect.  Some have a big effect with very small settings (eg lean) while others need very big settings (eg move) to have an effect.  And then there are magnets that need a special rig to show working hence why I'll do that as its own video.

I agree, some sliders for example have very low value ending, they become only useful when you put high numeric values in it.

 

Mazak

If you load a particle object it has by default 1 kg mass. That need a lot force to move the objects. Its all a game with balance.

Mazak