The Natural 3D Scenery Studio - E

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The Natural Extension!
Vue 4 Professional is the most advanced and productive
solution for creating, animating and rendering natural
3D scenery.
Vue 4 Professional naturally integrates and extends all
major 3D applications* to provide a complete,
professional natural 3D studio. Specifically designed for
professionals, it combines a multitude of cutting-edge
features that easily integrate with your workflow.
With its intuitive, production-oriented layout, you will
quickly create and enhance your production with
incredible wind-swept SolidGrowth™ 3 trees and plants,
volumetric atmospheres and rich terrains in fully
animated scenes.
Vue 4 Professional sets the new standard in high-end,
natural 3D creation!
The advanced World Browser displays a list of all
objects, materials and texture maps used in the scene
and lets you organize your scenes in layers that can be
locked or hidden for greater clarity when handling
complex projects. With user-definable keyboard
shortcuts, default startup scenes and texture map
folders, auto-reloading of modified texture maps,
replacement of objects by other objects (e.g. use a cube
to fake a building while setting up a scene and replace
it later with the actual building when it is ready!), Vue 4
Professional really gets work done!
Import
Swiftly import content created with other 3D
applications; Vue Pro's advanced import filters will
retain a maximum of texturing and mapping
information so that your models can be used directly.
Vue 4 Professional is actually easy to use... so you are
free to concentrate on what you want, rather than on
how to do it!
Because we believe that power shouldn't necessarily
translate into a steep learning curve, we devised the Vue
Professional interface so that it is easy to use without
compromising productivity. The resulting interface is
fully customizable and multi-threaded so that time
consuming processes can run in the background
without slowing you down. Previewing is done through
the use of a dual resolution OpenGL-based technology
that provides both quick and detailed previews of your
scenes. It displays textures, lens flares, planets, a preview
of the sky... and automatically decimates complex
geometries to speed up feedback without altering
preview quality.
Based on a solid ray-tracing foundation, Vue 4
Professional's render engine produces images and
animations of very high quality. These results can be
easily and seamlessly combined with other production
materials.
Of course, the whole application is designed to make
the best of your hardware. It supports multiple
processors (as many as your machine will hold!) and is
optimized for HyperThreading and G5 processors.
Vue 4 Professional features an extensive set of import
and export filters for all major 2D, 3D and composition
file formats. You can easily and efficiently exchange data
with the other applications in your toolkit.
Powerful and Productive
Professional Render Quality
You can automatically simplify the geometry of imported
meshes to quickly setup scenes involving very complex
models (e.g. architectural projects). Instantly switch back
to full mesh resolution for final rendering.
Full Object and Scene Export
Vue 4 Professional lets you export content to other 3D
applications in a wide variety of industry standard file
formats such as Discreet 3DS, Wavefront OBJ, LightWave
LWO, Cinema 4D C4D, AutoCAD DXF…
Easily export rocks, terrains, plants or even entire scenes!
Complex geometries are automatically unwrapped with
minimum distortion and exported complete with all UV
mapping and texturing information in a format that can
be read by other 3D applications. You can adjust the
level of detail in the exported geometries and texture
maps.
Although pure ray-tracing produces the best results,
sometimes you need a render fast and you need it now.
This is why e-on software added to Vue 4 Professional
several unique technologies that will guarantee that
you get the best quality in a minimum of time.
AccuShadows™ is an alternative approach to the
rendering of ray-traced shadows rendering technology
that will efficiently and accurately render soft shadow
maps for all types of light sources (including infinite
light sources such as sunlight!). Hybrid 2.5D™, another
Vue 4 Professional technology enhances motion blur
rendering and depth of field effects, producing
professional results significantly faster than the
standard stochastic approach. Improvements are
numerous and range from the ability to use reflections
maps instead of ray-traced reflections to advanced
geometry and texture anti-aliasing options (including
the new HyperMipMap™ procedural texture antialiasing engine).
Thanks to these unique technologies and tools for you
to hand tune your rendering, you will easily find the
ideal compromise between picture quality and
reasonable production time.
Volumetric Atmosphere System
Vue 4 Professional features a state-of-the-art volumetric
atmosphere model that closely simulates the
interactions of light and air as light travels through
the atmosphere. Create visible beams of light, add fog,
haze, animated cloud layers, ice rings, rainbows,
twinkling stars, planets... and recreate truly realistic or
surreal atmospheres in seconds.
You can even export skies as stand-alone sky-boxes or
sky-domes for use in your virtual environments!
Basic object animation information (motion, scale and
orientation) can be exported as 3DS or LightWave
MOT/LWS.
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The Natural 3D Scenery Studio™
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The Natural 3D Scenery Studio
Animated SolidGrowth™ 3 Vegetation
SolidGrowth™ is e-on's unique and totally unequalled
vegetation synthesis and rendering technology.
Recognized as the most efficient and realistic
vegetation system around, this third iteration of
SolidGrowth will automatically animate plants so that
they gently sway in the breeze. And because it is based
on random growth technologies, no two plants that you
create will ever be identical!
tools, render them, and then synchronize the cameras
and lights to create a matching environment in Vue 4
Professional!
G-Buffer Compositing
Vue 4 Professional fully supports the industry standard
G-Buffer structure. G-Buffer information can be saved in
the standard RLA or RPF file formats and used in
dedicated software (Combustion, Flame, Avid, After
Effects...) to easily and accurately composite your
renders with other sources.
And, thanks to the synchronization plug-ins, camera
movements will match exactly, ensuring perfectly
accurate compositing!
Using the Plant Editor, you can easily customize existing
plants or create your own, unique plant species by easily
modifying the 30+ plant species included in the
product!
On top of the global animated breeze settings, Vue 4
Professional lets you apply strong wind effects to
individual plants or groups of plants. The intensity and
direction of the wind can be animated. And because the
geometry of the plants can be keyframed, you will be
able to easily simulate complete tree or plant lifecycles!
Solid3D™ Terrain Modeling
Solid3D™ is e-on's real-time
3D terrain modeling
technology. Using a
pressure-sensitive
tablet (or just a
mouse!), you can
carve terrains and paint
16 different special effects
(e.g. erosion, stones, terraces...) directly in 3D!
Vue 4 Professional also features a convenient random
rock generator to create rocks with just one click.
Animation
Objects, materials, atmospheres, clouds, waves, trees...
everything springs to life, instantly achieving realistic
motion thanks to e-on's unique Dynamic Motion
Reaction™ technology. Creating convincing fly-throughs
of your architectural projects is as easy as plotting a
path and selecting a type of motion (e.g. "airplane" to
make the objects bank as they turn)! You can even add
automatic vibration effects for added realism!
Of course, you have full control over the animation, you
can adjust keyframes, precisely control the flow of
animation properties, apply variable motion blurring,
create simple forward dynamic linking, handle field
interlacing, non square pixels, flicker reduction...
Advanced Network Rendering
Using HyperVue™, dramatically speed up the rendering
of complex pictures and animations by distributing the
workload over a network of hybrid (Macintosh and
Windows) computers. Simply install a RenderCow™
(HyperVue's stand-alone rendering engine) on each
computer in your network (five render nodes are
included in the standard license - you can purchase
additional nodes if required). Render nodes will
automatically be updated remotely as required thanks
to e-on software's NewCow™ technology. Also, e-on's
unique SmartCow™ technology lets you turn render
nodes on and off while jobs are running (render nodes
running on Macintosh systems will be put to work
automatically as soon as they are turned on thanks
to our implementation of Apple's RendezVous™
technology).
The combination of all these technologies makes
setting up and managing a HyperVue render farm a real
breeze!
Extensible Architecture
Vue 4 Professional features an extensible architecture
that can be programmed using the standard, crossplatform application scripting language called python.
Access internal structures and functions to customize
and automate tasks or create entirely new rendering
effects. Dozens of sample scripts are supplied that will
add new functionality and illustrate the effects that can
be achieved with custom scripts.
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Feature Shortlist
Powerful and Productive
• Fast Multi-Threaded Interface for Swift Response
• Object Decimation for Faster Scene Setups
• Solid3D™ Real-Time Terrain Modeling Technology
• Advanced OpenGL Previewing
• Textured Models, Lens Flares, Atmosphere Preview...
• Multi-Processor Support, Optimized for G5 & P4 HT
• Efficient, Uncluttered Interface Layout
• Fast Navigation; Realtime Scene Preview
• Primitive and Boolean Modeling.
Advanced Rendering Solutions
• Super-Fast Rendering Technology
• Ultra-Realistic Volumetric Atmosphere Model
• Volumetric Clouds, Materials, Lights
• Soft Shadows, Rainbows, Ice Rings, Stellar Objects...
• Hundreds of Preset Atmospheres, Models,
Scenes, Materials...
• Hybrid 2.5D™ Motion Blurring and Depth Of Field
• AccuShadows™ Shadow Mapping Technology.
High End Animation Capabilities
• Animate Cameras, Lights, Objects, Materials,
Atmospheres, Clouds, Waves, Wind...
• Broadcast Quality Animations
• Interlacing, Flicker Reduction, Non-Square Pixels...
• Dynamic Motion Reation™ for Easy Animation Setup
• Advanced Animation Controls (Keyframing,
Timesplines, Forward Dynamics, Spin, Vibration,
Motion Blur...).
Plant Edition and Animation
• 30+ Ultra-Realistic SolidGrowth™ 3 Plant Species
• Automatic Simulation of Breeze and Wind
• Easy-to-Use Plant Editor for Plant Customization
• Animated Plant Morphing.
Synchronization and Compositing Options
• Automatic Synchronization of Cameras and
Lights with: 3DS Max 4.2+, Cinema 4D XL7+,
Maya 4.0+, LightWave 7+ and Softimage XSI
• Full Support of Industry Standard G-Buffer.
Advanced Network Rendering
• Rendering Accross Hybrid Networks (5 nodes incl.)
• SmartCow™ Automatic Node Detection and
Activation Using Apple RendezVous™
• NewCow™ Automatic Updating of Render Nodes.
Python Scripting
• Access to Internal Structures and Functions
• Create New and Unique Render Effects
• Dozens of Predefined Python Scripts.
2D/3D Import and Export Filters
• Full Object and Scene Export Options.
3D Import: 3DS, COB, DEM, DXF, LWO, OBJ, PZ3, RAW, SHD.
3D Export: 3DS, C4D, COB, DXF, LWO, OBJ, SHD...
2D Import/Export: BMP, JPG, GIF, PCX, PICT, PNG, PSD,
RLA, RPF, TGA, TIFF.
Animation: Quicktime, QTVR, AVI, RealMovie, Mpeg 1 &
2 and independent Frame Animation Export.
System Requirements
Synchronization
Through the use of dedicated plug-ins, Vue 4
Professional lets you synchronize cameras and lights
(synchronize motion, orientation, focal length and
more) with all major 3D Applications*, so that they can
be exactly replicated inside Vue. That way, you can
create animations using your standard
Copious Support Materials
Vue 4 Professional ships with a 460 page manual and 3
CDs full of high quality 3D models, materials,
atmospheres, cloud shapes and scenes created by
experienced Vue Professional artists.
• Pentium III+ or G4+ Class CPU
• Windows NT4/2000/XP or
Macintosh OS X v10.2+
• 512 MB Free RAM, 250 MB HD
• 16 Bit, 1024x768+ Video Display
• CD-ROM Drive
Suggested Retail Price: US$599
©2003 e-on software, inc. All rights reserved. Vue, Vue Pro, Vue 4 Professional, SolidGrowth, Dynamic Motion Reaction, Solid3D, Hybrid 2.5D, AccuShadows, HyperVue, RenderCow, NewCow, SmartCow,“The Natural 3D Scenery Studio”are trademarks of e-on software, inc. E-on software and the e-on software logo are registered trademarks of e-on software, inc. All other trademarks or
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Items displayed on this document are not necessarily supplied with the package. "Prah Nang" courtesy of Eran Dinur. "Elidor" courtesy of Adrian Farnsworth. "Seven Laux" courtesy of Pascal Marié. "Hospital" courtesy of
Scott Baumberger. "Mount-Phoul" courtesy of Philippe Bouyer. "Watergate" courtesy of Patrick Merminod. "The Feast" courtesy of Eran Dinur. Mechwarrior model and background courtesy of Matthieu Christen and Philippe Bouyer.