Vue 8 Complete - What's New?

Powerful 3D Sculpting Brushes

The Vue Terrain Editor is vastly improved with the addition of powerful 3D sculpting features for carving and molding terrain features and shapes. Paint overhangs, caves, and reliefs with the power and ease of 3D brush strokes.

The 3D sculpting brush contains several types of brush behaviors including the ability to sculpt, inflate, extrude, free form, invert, and smooth.

The intensity and tip profile of the 3D sculpting brushes can be adjusted by using falloff filters and bitmaps can be used to customize the shape and influence of the brush.

It is also now possible to reset 2D and 3D sculpting independently - this feature is available in the free Vue 8.4 update.

Localized Infinite and Procedural Terrain Scultping

Combine the best of both worlds with the ability to locally sculpt features on finite and infinite procedural terrains.

Let Vue automatically generate infinitely detailed expanses of terrain, then fine tune or completely rework localized areas of the terrain to suit your requirements. Touch up zones can be nested to provide unlimited artistic control.

Sculpt in roads, paths, and caverns while perserving the procedural details around the localized features.

Separate Bump and Displacement Channels

Displacement can now be manipulated independently of the bump channel which delivers greater performance and more refined artistic control.

Displacement depth and scale is now accessible directly from the material editor and can use any procedural or texture map function as its input.

Displacement in any Direction

Displacement can be adjusted to move in any user defined direction - horizontal, vertical, along the normal, or any combination. In addition, the displacement magnitude is adjustable in all three X, Y, and Z dimensions.

Vue 8 extends the realism of clouds and atmospheres with the introduction of Spectral 3 atmospheres.

Spectral 3 atmospheres

Vue 8 extends the realism of clouds and atmospheres with the introduction of Spectral 3 atmospheres.

Spectral 3 improves the quality and realism of internal cloud shadows, shadows projected on clouds, shadows projected onto objects, as well as the quality of godrays.

New Strata Terrain Fractals

The addition of new Recursive Strata Terrain fractals optimize the creation of richly detailed stratified, terrain features.

These fractals are fully user adjustable and can be applied in combination with any Vue noise function to produce a wide variety of appearances.

Spherical and Planetary Terrains Rendering

Vue 8 can render entire planets! Simply create a procedural terrain and Vue will easily convert it into a planet.

You can easily switch between the different types of infinite terrains, although the terrain geometry may be modified in the process.

Animated Ecosystem Populations

On top of creating EcoSystems with populations of animated elements, it is now possible to create populations that evolve over time.

This way, you can create such effects as a forest expanding to gradually cover a mountain, or the receding of vegetation at the border of a desert.

Re-Pose and Animate Rigged Meshes

Rigged and pre-animated mesh objects can now be re-posed and animated directly inside of Vue.

Users can create their own custom poses and movements directly inside of Vue with meshes that are converted to Vue's Rigged Mesh format (you can import fully rigged and animated meshes using Collada).

Vue 8 Complete fully supports Smith Micro's Poser 8, including the ability to render Poser characters using Poser 8's shading tree.

You can load and render animated characters with full dynamic clothing and hair, and you can even re-pose the Poser 8 characters directly inside of Vue!

Faster Rendering

Thanks to massive improvements in the rendering architecture and memory handling, overall rendering performance has been increased by up to 20%, especially when rendering refractive materials and boolean/metablob operations