Wow first time I see someone knows iron Butterfly :)))) thanx for the Two Steps from Hell tip...

Hi Paloth,
i was following your project, good stuff. I dont know if your Tenochtitlan was one-off project or you are really into archeological visualization, but anyways..i found this neat little software called CityEngine, check it out, it works with GIS layers so you can recreate real cities etc, or you can produce vast purely fictious urban landscapes...quite complex stuff really.

http://www.procedural.com/showcase/industries/archeology.html

Have fun

Ailig

Well I use both Geocontrol and WM2 and i think this is the best combo as it offers  wide range of techniques....

Btw that  Star Trek video  with Morricone music is amazing!!! :)))

If someones interested, here is another Avatar production article, it is not tutorial but is a mindblowing read...:

"It was very interesting. You could actually watch a forest grow in real time with this solution, and any TD could grow just by painting colors on the terrain." With this elegant solution, the big trees would grow first, then the smaller trees would die off as the big trees took away the light, the smaller trees would fight for position, the ground cover would fill in where it could get light."

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5434

Thanx Rutra!
Will give it a try, that link is great.

What was actually the part of nuke in this? Looks quite good, but what was nuke used for?

"you come to me on this, the day of my daughters wedding, asking me to post on the vue forum?"

Although that does explain why I keep waking up with a copy of blender in my bed....

Yes, i can remember time before Vue. I was crazy about Terragen when i found it. For a geography student it was a great toy. Then one day I saw advert for Vue 6 in 3d world magazine, the one with the beautiful beach and bench in the grass...and the rest is history :) I still got V6, cant upgrade yet but I just love it. I am trying to learn as much soft as i can but Vue is still the most important and still will be :)

Thanx for info,
i got really interested in this after my photogrammetry lessons at uni...gotta try it out :)

Something about Vue and matte would be nice, and i am quite intrigued by that "cinematic lighting" , not really sure what to expect....

Ok,thanx for info...anyway fantastic product!

Great, is it gonna work in lesser versions, ie Vue esprit 7/8 etc?

http://mattepainting.org/

Excellent MP source with contributing professionals...not sure about SW II, but there are tons of MP's...

Amazing, altocumulus is incredible! great work...

There is....

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_7_complete/index.php?page=19&BaseProduct=Vue%207%20Complete