I've been playing with my brand-new copy of Vue 6 Pro Studio, dinking around with the presets and going through the manual and some other video tutorials, but I'm wondering if there's a decent resource (free or paid) for a nice "Vue 6 Newbie to Pro" sort of path.  I'm looking at the GeekAtPlay Vue 6 downloadable tutes, they look pretty interesting...

Anyone have any recommendations?  I know I'm not going to learn overnight, but every little bit of help.. helps!

This should help: http://www.geekatplay.com/vuetutorialsnew.php

edit: I just finished reading your post! You can get the book " Vue 6 Revealed" also which is quite good.

Thanks!  I'll head over to Amazon and burn some of the pittance left on my credit card for the book.. I can read it on the bus to/from work. :-)

that's a good book, recommend it, jsutwish it was in colour!! ;)

Geek at Play is great

and this is my tutorials, on Vue, and many other things, please noe my old tutorials, the #1 and #3. are actually STILL valid, because post work is a great way to improve scenes :)

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

I'll need ot write one on Vue + particle illusion (non pro version), Vladimir beat me to that one, lol. I'm so slow now, and he's good!

Heh.. waiting on the book from Amazon, now.  going to hit your tutorials this weekend, Silverblade, and maybe grab a download tutorial DVD as well.  I own ParticleIllusion SE so any tutorials about Vue+PI would be great! :-)

Wooly',
npb mate, and have fun! :)

I posted in another thread here yesterday, iirc, on using Particle Illusion SE and renders.

basically since you can only render a particle illusion SE effect at the same resolution as the stage inside Particle illusion
and thus you cannot use an entire image unless it's smaller than your stage resolution....

I slice an image up into areas I'll put an effect on, export as a bitmap , and import them to PI SE, do the effect, save back out as a bitmap, import as a new layer in PaintShopPro or Photoshop, over top of original image render, position, merge, voila', done!

It's how I do my magic effect stuff in my Spelljammer pics ;) (check my gallery, here or on my site)
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=7541

warning: large flares smoke etc often covers large areas, so they may over lap your section of image, and thus leave ugly visible lines att hose edges when you combine the images.

I have a widescreen monitor, so I crank the desktop resolution to max, which helps for this the Particle Illusion stage size.

I swear my next purchase will be a widescreen monitor.. I can make the PI stage large but it's messy on my 1280x1024 screen!

Nice work on the Spelljammer pic!

Mine goes up to 1680x1050, but I'd love a larger screen, ah well, practical realities...

Ta mate! :)