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Finally I got a copy of Vue 5 Infinite, and I know you just don't know what this is. It is a program by E-ON software. It is a landscape generator but does more than just planting. With its Eco-System, you can assign a surface to plant trees. Yes, they will just grow infinite on that area like a grass safari or dense forest. With that you can also make structures like building cars on a highway. If you build your tree landscape with that, you can be sure that no tree looks the same. It sets variations on all objects so you get different results with just one click.

You can also import your things to render. It helps me a lot because I can design a house in AutoCAD and 3DS Max, then import it into Vue 5 with a hill of many trees. Then I can render it straight away with global illumination on. It can even have the power to render volumetric light.

Even crazier, if you render an animation, you can set the physics of how the trees swing. Wow, it is just real...

So this is my first attempt on the Eco-system, and it starts off really beauitfully...

Then I realize it can render the alpha channel and depth channel at the same time! Awesome!


Now I can only say that I will definitely try this with my new abstract art direction. Or perhaps start some landscape matt painting with this!

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Wow, that is cool. Kinda reminds me of oblivion's computer generated forests. They are all created automaticly without human intervention.

By Nohbudy, years ago | Nest-reply

amazing :O

By GeckoKid, years ago | Nest-reply

haha havent played with Vue for a while

By DarkFire, years ago | Nest-reply

im wondering if it can create waterfalls?

By DarkFire, years ago | Nest-reply

Forget abstracts. At least in the first 3 months of using it.
You'll be frustrated by:

1. Noisy renders. Aww. Turning off ambient lighting helps, but reverting to 3-point isn't a great way to sell a landscape program.
2. Slow renders.
I didn't use any rendercows, and a noisy scene with an ecosystem took 100 hours at 2000*3000 (Which is quite small). Not that ideal, eh?
3. Bugs.
They're everywhere!
4. High-polygon objects.
Besides Ecosystems (which are a way to instance unique geometry) Vue doesn't handle much of a load. It depends on the RAM you have, and whether the system likes you or not (I don't know if it's a bug, or an anti-piracy countermeasure)

I've been using V5I for a year (V4 Pro for 2) and I can say it's amazing in some ways, much disappointing in others. Take everything the program has to offer with a grain of salt. Yet for a first-time render, that is great!

p/s: I'm waiting for the Vue 6 details at Siggraph.

By the_negative, years ago | Nest-reply

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