Lost Survey Ship Footage

A quick preview quality (some OpenGL quality, too) animation from Vue 10 Infinite. Trying out the cinerama format. A widescreen version can be watched on YouTube.

Yes, I know. It's not quite as exciting as an Underground Racing video.


ADDED:

I tried recording as MP2 instead of with MP4 for this version. It's 720 x 480 instead of the original 720 x 400. So the text came out better at least.

Alien World Outpost Concept

I'm a few hours into the beginning concept for this outpost on an alien world scene I plan to create in Vue. The structure was modeled in Hexagon and then UV mapped and painted in 3D-Coat. A few gravel and concrete textures were mixed with some brown color added for the "base" paint. Then a dark color was painted (by hand) in the concave areas. And a light color (with spec turned on) was painted on the outer edges.

I forgot that I probably could have done this on the fly with 3D-Coat's new concave painting. But I wanted to see if I could do a more sloppy job of applying natural wear to the walls. This is a screenshot taken from 3D-Coat. This will also be the first time I attempt a Vue animation that's longer than five seconds. Ha ha.

There may be some match-moving involved if I have the right footage of desert landscape.

Focused Vue

Used a ray-traced blur in Vue to allow for the eye to be in focus. Lens flare done in Vue.

Blur in Vue

The blur was generated by Vue during the render.

What the heck. I had to add some postwork. Lens flare done in Photoshop.

An Alien World to Visit

I keep having visions of an alien world landscape for the last few days. I will have to make some models for it and see if I can recreate the scene in Vue.

Dirigible Download for Vue 10 Infinite

This dirigible is now a free download in my Free Stuff area at Renderosity.

Mine Elevator Available Soon For Download

Soon my Vue 10 Infinite mine elevator model will be made available as a free download over at Renderosity (in my Free Stuff area). They have to approve the model first.





ADDED: It's now available for download at Renderosity.

Highrise #1

Used Amapi Pro to create a quick highrise model using NURBS. Just a bunch of boolean operations. Nothing else.

And a test render in Vue Infinite using a simple outdoor lit scene. No materials applied yet. More highrise models to add still.

30% faster Vue rendering, I hope

I'm downloading Vue R10 Infinite from e-on right now. Render speeds are 30% faster than version 9, they say. So I am hoping for this with some test scenes of mine I plan to render after installing this new version.

Booleans Are Good

Watching the GroBototomodo videos convinced me to upgrade my GroBoto to Version 3. So booleans are not a bad word anymore it seems? It only took what... 20 years?