Vue

[glorybound]

Does anybody include Vue in their work flow? I read Vue and V-Ray do not play well together, but can it be used in post?

[EricKlein]

Does anybody include Vue in their work flow? I read Vue and V-Ray do not play well together, but can it be used in post?

We've tried it...it doesn't currently work with vray. I'm not crazy about the implemetation with Max anyway, and the last time I used it I brought the model into vue itself (aircraft in flight). The main issue is speed. It's super-slow at non-flicker quality. You can net render to 5 machines, and buy 5 more for a couple hundred bucks, so it is "o.k"...I do like the atmospherics.

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[Morne]

As far as I understand it doent work with VRAY. Well you get infinite which is the standalone, and xtream which is the max plug-in version. The plugin version doesnt work with vray and well, you dont get a vray plugin for infinite.

I've played with it a bit and it has some very cool features like painting trees onto your site and some other nice goodies. Just dont try and render anything (in either version) I'm not an expert on the render settings, but speed wise it feels like I'm using maxwell.

As far as post goes, yes I think there should be a way to combine the stuff.

I've abondoned the idea of messing around with vue any further for now.
Instead I'm looking into combining dreamscape and onyx treestorm into max.
I won't hog this vue thread with that so I'll ask the question in a new thread

Kind Regards,
Morne

[glorybound]

Vue

This guys work is on the Vue site so somehow thing are being integrated. I love the look of some of his images...

http://www.vpii.com/index.html

[Morne]

So just how does Vue do plants? Is it propper 3D mesh like onyx or is it mostly full branches that are just 4 of 5 planes rendered nicely? Will onyx then be faster than vue?

[glorybound]

Vue

It looks to be planes with opacity maps like xfrog.

[rajdarge]

Vue generates low poly trees that look awful close up.
The work flow that I have established with vray and vue is this:
1. make your atmosphere - export this from Vue as HDRI panoramic render (including the trees and ground

2.There is a very buggy tool in max and vue to align the camera in vue (and resolution of render as well) from the camera in max - doesn't work with the vrayphys cam - have to use a child max camera. The synchronize plugin for max, pretends to be able to align the vue sun to the vray sun or another light. Never got this working. Use a scale of about 0.1 in vue.
synchronize the main camera and then render a background in vue (of the scene that you want) - a bit like a matte painting.
then overlay the max vray output.
It takes a long time and a lot of fiddling, and might work for animation, if you had the patience.