I'm new to this forum, but have spent that last hour reading all questions to learn as much as I can. I am a professional architectural graphic artist interested in using Vue to be included with my renderings. Currently, everything is modeled in Viz4. I will be importing it into Softimage XSI for rendering purposes. I don't have anything right now to use as landscaping software. I like Vue's trees and terrain generation. However, it seems that Vue can't import or export camera animation paths from a .3ds file that I create in Viz. Initially, I was thinking of developing the camera animations in Viz, export the models and animations into XSI to render w/ alpha channels, render the landscaping in Vue with the same camera path, then finally composite everything together in some compositing program such as XSI or Commotion.....

Are there ways to do this with Vue??? or some other approach that anyone can think of??? I was even thinking about importing the model into Vue as a solid blue texture so that I could blue-screen the images in a compositing program. This could be done as long as both programs used the same camera path.

Please give me any idea on what you might think is a way to work around the issue... Other opinions on software for landscaping solutions are welcome. I've already looked at World Builder, but I don't like their trees as much as Vue.

Thanks for any input that you might have....
Jim

Hi Jim, I don't use any of the programs you name above and cannot help you with that. All I can tell you is that you can only export terrains from Vue, that's all. You can create your items outside and import them as OBJ or 3ds into Vue, but no animations yet. The only animation import what will be added soon is Poser animation. Maybe here is somebody using the same software and will answer better to you. I hope so. But if ever you have Vue specific questions, you're on the right place. Good luck! Guitta

I agree with Guitta. The only thing I wanted to add is that animating camera is really easy. So, you can eventually try to import your viz4 model into Vue for testing camera animation.