e-on software has announced availability of the tenth generation of its Vue line of products, Infinite and xStream including the new features of its Vue 10 product line-up. Vue 10 xStream is designed to assist artists create digital environments for use within 3ds Max, Maya, and Softimage, Maxon Cinema 4D or Newtek LightWave. Vue 10 Infinite makes those same environments possible through a stand-alone package. If you are under maintenance and downloaded the Vue 10 Pre Release, you should download the Final Release from your customer account page.
New features in Vue 10:
- Spline and Road Tools – for EcoSystems, terrain effects, building roads and creating objects. The automatic path-finding algorthm can also be used to build realistic roads and the surface of terrains
- Dynamic Rocks – a library of dynamic rock templates can be used to instantly create single rocks, groups of rocks, or used in EcoSystems. Each time you create a rock from a template, a new and unique variation will be generated!
- Physical Transparency and Water Shaders – Physical Transparency adds absorption and scattering paramters to allow for realistic light absorption in water, while ocean waves can now accurately affect incident light to create realistic underwater caustics
- Render Comparison – a new render display dialogue lets the user stack and compare previous renders, and use HDR difference tools for in-depth analysis. Lightweight render clones can also be created to test various post-production effects without altering the original
- EcoSystem Phase and Lean-out Control – individually control the phase (animation offset) of animated elements inside the EcoSystem populations to create more natural animations
- Terrain Editing improvements – you can now precisely view the active zones when painting with a brush that has Environment Constraints applied. The new Custom 3D Terrain brush has also been added to the brush collection. Material painting has also been markedly improved, and a new Strata3D node has been added for the creation of realistic canyon walls and stratified rock formations. Plus more!
- Edge-based Anti-aliasing – the new edge-based anti-aliasing algorithm is added to complement the previous colour-based anti-aliasing strategy
e-on software is expecting to release Vue 10 products for 3D Enthusiasts (Vue 10 Pioneer, Theme-Packs, Vue 3D SuperHero and Frontier) and Vue 10 products for 3D Artists (Vue 10 Esprit, Studio and Complete) mid November 2011.
Vue 10 Spline Tools tutorial
Source: e-on software