vue to max?

[jonnybefree]

hi all,

is there a nice workflow (connection) between max and vue?
saw incredible renderings from within max with it.

but try'd it one time to export some trees and a landscape what me take several hours and many millions of polys. when i reduced export-quality it dind't looks good anymore.

i know that pirates of the carribien was partially made with vue, wonder how they did that.

anybody?

best regards
Jonas

[jacksc02]

there is a plugin for porting vue to max called xstream check it out it looks promising

[GALACTUS]

Jacksc02 is right Xstream is the only way to do it properly, the down side is no VRay support only mental ray and also there is/was an issue with unit scale. Animation also had a lot of fizzing on the trees, hopefully these have been addressed in Vue6 infinite which i think is the summation of their liasing with ILM whilst working on pirates.

[jonnybefree]

hmm,

and the other way around?
is there a possibility to import animated cameras in vue?
so that i can render in vue and comping it after?

[percydaman]

I wouldn't recommend it. Vue uses copious amounts of opacity maps for their foliage which vray doesn't get along with. We've gone to geometry only foliage wherever possible in our projects.