After releasing of VUE xStream 2015 and VUE Infinite 2015, e-on software's Digital Nature solutions for CG Professionals, company announced the availability of all products in the VUE 2015 product line for 3D Artists: VUE Pioneer 2015, VUE Esprit 2015, VUE Studio 2015 and VUE Complete 2015. At this point E-on Software finalized the introduction of their leading solution for natural 3D environments to the market. The improvements of VUE 2015 according to the company are massive and expansive starting from faster rendering, improved overall performance, a new non-photo-realistic renderer, a new displacement mapping engine and more. There are also a number of features making it ideal for all production environments, including easy exchange of data with ZBrush, support for Alembic and Disney's PTex, and tighter integration with compositing pipelines.
The most attention, as usual, is focused on VUE xStream and VUE Infinite. Both solutions are offering CG professionals the premiere solutions for creating exceptionally rich and realistic Digital Nature environments with seamless integration into any production workflow.
Sculpt 3D Terrains in Real-Time
Revolutionary Solid3D™ terrain modeling technology lets the user interactively carve and shape terrains in real time with the help of using 3D brushes, mold and shape terrains into virtually any shape imaginable. This allows the creation of caves, grottos, overhangs, rivers, canyons with the ease of modeling in clay-like fashion. The brushes can also be used to interactively add erosion and geological effects and blend details using the 3D smoothing brush.
There is no limit of changing the properties of the brushes, you can change the effect of brushes on terrain geometry or material distributions, control the influence of slope or orientation, the effect of tablet pressure, configure brush shapes, etc. Everything will be saved and the new brush will appear in the list of brush presets, and you can select it with a single click.
You can also use the 8 presets (mountain, peak, eroded, mounds, iceberg, glacier, dunes, lunar) for generating base terrains, a grayscale image, or by importing USGS DEM data.
Rendering
The VUE render engine is based on a solid ray-tracing foundation incorporating all of today’s high-end features, yet stands out in its ability to handle huge poly counts quickly and efficiently. Unique technologies allow for a tight integration with the atmosphere engine and for optimized rendering of EcoSystems and procedural terrains. VUE's render engine outputs top-quality images and animations with superb overall performance.
Revolutionary EcoSystem™ Generation 4
The EcoSystem revolution has redefined the way CG artists create landscape images.
Real world natural environments are extremely complex. Creating such highly detailed scenes in 3D is an exhausting task, both in terms of hard work and computer resources. Most 3D programs, in fact, are unable to deal with the huge polygon count required to create, say, a realistic forest scene with millions of trees. With e-on’s patented EcoSystem technology, you can easily populate your scenes with millions of plants, trees, stones and other objects, to achieve a totally new level of natural complexity and detail while keeping Vue’s performance and display running smoothly.
Here is a shortlist of some of the important new features included in VUE 2015:
- High-amplitude displacement mapping
- Faster rendering
- Non-Photo-Real engine analyzes renders like an artist to create stylized artwork
- Generate Ambient Occlusion passes(1)
- Energy Conservative AntiAliasing
- Exchange geometry with ZBrush using GoZ
- Import and export scenes, objects or camera paths as Alembic
- Export materials using the Ptex standard
- Horizontal and vertical film offsets
- Export Rocks and baked HyperBlobs
- Reorganize the layout of the interface at will
- Fast content browser with large previews, search and more
- Double-sided materials
- Auto-scale clouds with altitude
- Modulate Spectral clouds sharpness using a function graph
New features got also PlantFactory, a revolutionary 3D vegetation modeling, animation and rendering software, dedicated to the CG, SFX, Architecture and Gaming communities. With using PlantFactory you can create any kind of vegetation, from a simple grass to trees. Generate procedural geometry and materials of unlimited detail together with animating all plant aspect and much more.
New and enhanced capabilities include:
- Quads andSubdivision Surfaces
- Control mesh density of individual parts of the plant
- Detail maps and Double-sided materials
- Export meshes as Alembic
- Exchange plants or plant parts with ZBrush
- Export materials using Ptex standard
- New ultra-realistic wind model
- Redesigned interface and workflow
- Simplified Material Editor
- New lightweight Simple Segment node for small branches and twigs
- New Node presets for the Segment and Leaf nodes
- Custom tailored FBX export preset for Unity 5
- Redesigned content, 19 new plant species
- 44 simple tutorial scenes explaining specific settings
FREE VUE Pioneer 2015
Newcomers to 3D and casual artists will find in VUE Pioneer all the landscape-creation tools they need to easily create and render amazing images of their own 3D worlds. VUE Pioneer is the perfect introduction to the world of 3D. Despite the addition of revolutionary new technologies for the creation and rendering of natural 3D environments, e-on software also announces that VUE Pioneer, its entry-level product will remain available for free, available from Cornucopia3D.
VUE Esprit 2015
is the enhanced Digital Nature application with extended import and scenery control features for serious 3D artists. It is focused on intuitive workflow, advanced rendering features and Poser integration. With a clear, uncluttered interface and state of the art features, VUE Esprit combines sophistication with ease of use. With Vue’s renowned natural 3D tools and unique render quality, 3D artists can create inspiring 3D art in any style.
VUE Studio 2015
is the advanced Digital Nature application with powerful vegetation and rendering features for dedicated 3D artists. Focused on enhanced natural vegetation capabilities, advanced rendering features and extended Poser integration, VUE Studio provides comprehensive control over the creation of complex scenes, while maintaining an intuitive workflow.
VUE Complete 2015
combines into a single package a multitude of cutting-edge features that let 3D artists easily create and control rich EcoSystems™ of wind-swept trees and plants, hyper-realistic spectral atmospheres and detailed terrains in fully animated scenes.
About e-on software
E-on software is the leading developer of solutions for the creation, animation, rendering and integration of natural 3D environments (VUE, PlantFactory, CloudFactory Ozone and Carbon Scatter), as well as real-time immersive visualization tools for Architecture and GeoDesign (LumenRT). Offering a wide array of Digital Nature products and applications, e-on software provides solutions adapted to every project and budget. E-on software products are used worldwide by the film, television, architecture, game, science, educational and entertainment industries.
More information at: E-on Software