For those of you who don’t already know, Vue is a 3d app specifically designed for creating natural 3d environments of epic proportions. In this tutorial, we will take a look at the basics, and then cover some handy techniques for creating huge landscapes could be used in both films or matte paintings. We will explore almost every major function of the app, but condense it enough that it can be easily understood in one sitting.
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Awesome.
Great!!!
I used Vue a while ago, the results it can give us are amazing!!
umm .. the screenshot here doesnt seem to be epic? is it worth watchin ?
Epic as in large and something you would see in a fly through with that soft melodic cinematic score in the background.
But hey, I wont be hurt at all if you don’t watch it, your probably better in all aspects of Vue than I am anyhow, and not even in need of what I presented (yeah a bit of sarcasm to maybe squelch the people who want someone else to do their job for them).
Im not trying to be rude, but given the trend of comments on many authors tutorials I thought maybe I would comment in like fashion about the comments… if that makes any sense.
So all I can say is if you dont like it dont watch it, BUT before you criticize present something better to substantiate your criticism.
- Evan
Couldn’t have said that better.
Well, if the tutorial is advertised with ‘How to create epic landscapes’ and the final image result is anything but epic (something I agree with umerzafar), question is warranted if watching the tutorial is worth the time, right?
So, your sarcasm is misplaced and uncalled for, not mentioning childish.
Hello Evan well put. I totally agree . There are many people who are extremely hostile, unappreciative about author tutorials on this site as well as Aetuts. Thanks for the effort on putting this tutorial together . I usually use vue for basic things like exporting terrains to maya and 3ds max, but don’t know much else , great to see a Vue tutorial.
I agree also. Maybe a touch more moderation might be needed so people can add to the discussion rather than be on a downer on everything.
I am not saying we should get rid of the negative feedback, which can actually be more helpful at times, but focus on those comments that help towards getting good tutorials.
Once again, I think I need to chime in here.
@Gavin: Comments are moderated very carefully, but unfortunately, we must allow even the rude and unappreciative to comment in the name of giving fair and equitable treatment to all…..as long as they are commenting about the tutorial, and not targeting the authors or other readers that is.
@Everyone who commented about this tut’s final result not looking “Epic” enough: The word “Epic” is used to describe a scene of a grandiose scale…which I believe is accurate. Besides, do you really expect anyone to create something that is perfect film quality in a realtime, one hour video? If you can do it, then you’re more than welcome to submit a tutorial.
@Everyone who’s worried about wasting their time watching the video: These videos are available for free to you, and you’re worried about wasting one hour of your time? Just think about how long it took to make, and perhaps you might think twice before lodging your complaint.
I think the preview certainly looks epic, and I found the tutorial really helpful. Thanks for taking the time to make it! I don’t own Vue but I have wanted to know more about how it works, its capabilities, etc…, and this tutorial answered a lot of my questions.
Great tutorial! This is absolutely worth spending the time watching. Thank you!
I wish there was a lot more tuts covering this amazing application here on cgtuts!…
You might like September ;)
Matt
very very nice!~
This is awesome. I wish I could run Vue on mac. Not that I don’t have PC’s around.. but they are not really weapons of choice right now. Thanks, this really is awesome.
Actually you can run Vue on macs and they work as great as PC versions.
If you don’t have the license for a mac, you can go for VUE7 pioneer. It’s free. It is a limited version but still have great futures.
Cheers
This is a very helpful tutorial for me, I’ll be working in Vue in the upcoming months and this only makes it easier to familiarize with it. Thanks for taking the time and creating such a tutorial.
Very good tut, its a shame Vue is so laggy. Some people say its very easy to create beautiful scenes in Vue just because its easy to create the elements like trees and clouds, but whn it comes t actually making an awesome scene, there is a lot involved, thanks for the tut.
I think it looks epic, actually.
rofl
;D
Too bad I dont have Vue.. I think the image could even be just a basic starterline for something. I can see this being really awsome if you edit it in photoshop(generally the sky) and add more details etc.
@ Haters: Its free, you dont have to watch it.
I agree.
This looks like an amazing starting point for matte painting or photomanipulations.
Lovely. :)
Nice, but you don’t need to place your terrains in the sky to achieve this look of fog, you can set your cloud layer altitude to 0 by setting 0 in the atmosphere editor (the cursor can’t go to 0, but you can type it in the keyboard).
Hope this tip will help you
Here is an image I get within Vue with a dense cloud layer :
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/517/crepusculenuageux.png
and another one :
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6584/picsrocheuxhq.png
some other Vue work in my blog :
http://arthur-bayard.over-blog.com/
PS : sorry for my English, I’m from France.
Great to see a Vue tut here. Thanks Evan!
Hey, were can I download Vue? Is it free? Because I just downloaded something called Vue and it is not actually Vue if you know what I mean :(.
Nevermind, I found it, it was on the second page of the google results, wierd huh? But anyway, FANTASTIC TUT EVAN! You are one of my favorite 3D artists, and you have taught me a lot! Maybe in the future you could make a photorealistic Earth model, or something! There are lots of Earth tuts, but none of them are photorealistic!
VERY NICE TUT!
To UMERZAFAR: YOUR NOT FUNNY
thanks for this tips tutorial… it help me a lot…. hop we ll have a lot of more like it ! Thks to share !!!
Regards
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thanks so much for the tutorial.. really interesting! great delivery too.
and definitely epic :P
my renders comes out very grainy not matter what i do, so if anyone knows a cure for that it would be very nice
I liked it. Lots of info beyond that in the manual, lots of tips on how to get the best from the software, exactly what I want from this kind of thing. Doesn’t mean you have to recreate this scene if it’s not to your taste. Really unfair to snipe the guy when he’s given his time to create it, thanks a lot Evan.