Vue d'Esprit

Is there anyone out there using Vue? Or using vue "professionally"? I haven't myself had the time lately to use it as much as I would like to, so I'm always looking forward to learning new tricks and so on. Unfortunately I don't find many "useful" tutorials, and mostly I find the images on the web (ie at e-onsoftware's homepage and renderosity) quite flat and lifeless (even though the vegetations really kicks butt, and would inspire to do great landscape pictures).
I myself usually combine many applications in my work (Xara X, CorelDraw, Photoshop etc). Do any of you for example create landscapes in Vue and use them in photoshop (as background or such)? Or are you all Bryce-users? Do you have any examples of images where you have used Vue, that you may show in this forum?

-Paul

Look in www.renderosity.com , they have a very lively Vue group. You'll find enough helpful people and tutorials there

this "Vue" ?

Hein: Yes, I quite regulary visit renderosity, but as I said, the pictures there look unfortunately quite stale(sp?) and lifeless. And IMO Vue seems to be more of a hobbyist's tool, used just for recreation and fun - and nothing wrong with that, I use my programs much in the same way. What I am looking for is ways of getting more "life" in my pictures, not just importing models.

Minimiro: Vue d'Esprit is a lanscape-software, much alike Bryce. I personally find the interface more easy to use the Bryce's. Vue is also very fast, and the vegetation generator makes really great plants.

Go to renderosity (http://www.renderosity.com/) or e-onsoftwares homepage (http://www.e-onsoftware.com/) for examples and galleries.

-Paul

Hi Paul,

I think from seeing those galleries that Vue d'Espirt has some real promise. The 'flat/lifeless' characteristics you mentioned appear to be the choice of the artist - but not in a bad way. A lot of the images i saw had more of a "painterly" effect than they did a 3D look to them. But i still think the images look just fine, even like that.

If it can create a 'complete' scene, including any vegetation, and it looks like it can, i'd say it's worth looking into. By the look of some of those gallery images, i wouldn't really say it's just intended for 'hobby' use.

PS: Bryce doesn't have a "vegetation generator" [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]
And i myself only use Bryce once in a while (i find it quite limited and VERY "UN-intuitively" designed. I usually use either Cinema 4D or Terragen.

PPS: i think i'll look into Vue d'Espirt somemore. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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