vue images from mahorela

[mahorela]

Rick and I had been talking about the potential of Vue. I said I'd post a few images to show the environments etc. Not really arch work so here they are.

[Ricardo Eloy]

Great stuff, Bob! talk about X-men, huh?

It really seems a fun soft to work with, with the environment stuff you mentioned and all. Just wondering about the apparent lack of secondary illumination in some of them. How is the GI generated? Do you have any control over it or is it environment-dependant?

[mahorela]

I think you have a great deal of control with the GI. The images I made are just muck around, made in under an hour and half of that time is waiting for the software to load up again after it's crashed. check out this link, there is some arch viz work there done with Vue GI. Interestingly there is some decent interior work done with GI in the sample files as well.

 

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/showcase/?page=4

 

the biggest problem I have had in my arch viz tests with vue is that when it imports in 3ds files all the objects are attached and Vue has no sub object selection system. So to apply materials to each object, you literally have to export out 3ds files for each object type and import and texture them individually which is a pain.

 

I'm optimistic about it's potential though, particularly in future releases

[mahorela]

the vue GI tab in the environment menu

[IC]

To my mind those images are a bit dated looking to say the least. They show some imagination and creativity but they look like they were done five years ago with Bryce.

 

I got a copy of Vue 5 with my copy of LightWave 8.5. Also included was LWCad and a free upgrade to LightWave 9 when it's released.

All that cost less than £500 (excluding VAT).

 

The reason I'm saying this is that to my mind Vue is great fun in the same way that Bryce and Terragen are and its reasonably good at landscape generation but the render engine is not fit for high quality, quick turnaround, architectural images.

I know there are guys out there making incredible stuff with Vue but then you can say that about Blender and Truespace.

 

I think if its being used in a production environment at the moment, it shouldn't be as a main renderer. That's why it's bundled free with a mid price app.