I'm always amazed at how easy it is to make good looking pictures using Vue. I was having a rather hard morning at work and needed to make a little eye candy to cheer myself up, so I opened up Vue. A ground plane, a single terrain, a few Plum trees, and a cloud sphere behind the camera casting shadows into the scene, and there you have it: instant peaceful country side! :) -SMT

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I like it, too. Looks like an area to the side of a golf course...the area you don't want to hit a ball into! :)

I own a bunch of different 3D programs and I feel the same way. Using VUE is like playing golf or going surfing...

I couldn't agree more. The past few weeks have been really aggravating for me. That also has alot to do with why I haven't really made any new pics... not enough time and too many other things going on. :( But, I still open Vue up for at least a little almost every morning after I'm ready to leave, but still have some time. It can be a great little form of relaxaation, and almost kinda like a tranquilizer sometimes... :) Ans Steve, this is almost always the type of thing I do-- plop a few trees down and a moutain or two, play with the sky and sit back smiling while it renders, and turns into a living thing as I watch. :) it IS amazing, in't it?

Yeah, this is one nice little program and definitely samll that is a really pleasantly esthetic scene you have there... But that's more than a few plum trees... It looks like a small army of them... :)

You betcha' :)

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Army of Plum trees? Actually, I created just 3 trees, put them at the corners of a triangle, used the scatter function to create 30 more within the triangle, then copied and moved the whole bunch twice. 93 trees in all. hmm...yeah, maybe a small army. Didn't add much to the render time, though. -SMT

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

uh, make that 99 trees. oops. :)

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

Didn't someone say that grouping and scattering the trees like that is actually much less 3D overhead than planting a lot in individual trees..? Sort of like an "L-system" approach- Vue can handle a group of clones much quicker...(?)...

Works for me!

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

Fox, yes if you group 'em and have that other whatsis checked....um, geez, the term just jumped right out of my mind. Help! I have a leak! Boundary-something, erg. Well someonw knows what I'm mumbling about. :) o/~ 99 cord of plum trees on the lawn. o/~ 99 cord of plum trees! o/~ Chop one down, pass it around o/~ 98 cord of plum trees on the lawn. This is my brain. This is my brain with a leak. This is my brain on Vue! :D

Cute Varian... very funny... :)

Hey, thanks small, I totally forgot about the scatter technique... Cause I gotta create a whole bunch of trees for this image I'm making...