How Do I Choose the Best 3D Rendering Services?

Vue series products provide a series of solutions for the animation production and rendering of 3D natural environment. There are many different products in the Vue series. This is to meet the needs of users at different levels: it can meet professional production studios, and it can also meet 3D freelance artists.

VUE

(3D rendering solution products)

Vue series products provide a series of solutions for the animation production and rendering of 3D natural environment. There are many different products in the Vue series. This is to meet the needs of users at different levels: it can meet professional production studios, and it can also meet 3D freelance artists.

Foreign name

Vue6 xStream

Short name

VUE

For people

Professional production studio, 3D free

Before understanding VUE

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VUE Introduction

Vue 8 XStream is also called VUE. However, it is CG landscape design software, very powerful!

Here is a brief introduction to it:

After 15 years of research and development, we have today's Vue 8 series. Vue 8 products are powerful but easy to use.

Professional Comprehensive Edition

Vue 8 XStream provides a complete set of tools for professional CG artists to create realistic natural environments, and can also be rendered in 3ds Max, Maya, XSI, Lightwave or Cinema 4D.

The natural environment produced by Vue 8 XStream is well compatible with your scene and animation, and provides mutual projection, reflection, and refraction functions.

Vue 8 xStream for $ 1495

3D Nature Art Edition

Vue 8 XStream is a 3D application designed for artists and illustrators, and is specifically designed for workflows, high-precision rendering effects, and more. The interface is clean and easy to use.

With Vue's 3D tools, you can make any 3D art you want.

Professional Personal Edition

Vue 8 XStream comprehensively integrates landscape creation capabilities, advanced rendering capabilities, and comprehensive animation tools, which are unique and unparalleled.

You can render your project in the most natural environment. The natural environment and lighting are extremely realistic. Vue 8 Infinite is the best choice for architecture, illustration, matte painting and animation. It sells for $ 695.

VUE interface and process

In stand-alone mode, Vue xStream operates in the same way as Vue Infinite. The features described on this page are fully applicable to Vue Infinite.

Vue's design shares the same philosophy as other e-on products, namely a clean and tidy user interface designed from the user's perspective. All functions and controls are hidden in the deep panel and can be easily called when needed. The combination of powerful functions and simple operations provides you with a faster workflow and higher output, while making the import from other applications smoother.

Advanced OpenGL Engine

Vue's OpenGL preview engine maximizes the efficiency of high-end GPUs and multi-core systems. The engine is complemented by a powerful multi-threaded architecture, which can effectively utilize high-performance graphics cards to produce high-quality visual performance.

The OpenGL preview engine has three working modes:

Software: Previews are generated by the CPU to maximize compatibility with older video boards

Fixed Pipeline Engine: Powerful GPU rendering preview using OpenGL 1.2

Shader Engine: Previews are rendered using advanced GPU shaders for the most accurate real-time performance.

Display Options

Includes wireframe display option boxes, fill boxes, wireframes, flat shadows, and smooth shadows. These options can be set individually for each object and display window. Fog, scene lights, shadows and video frame guides can also enable Open GL displays.

Dynamic Plant Display Optimization

The quality of the plant preview can be dynamically adjusted on a global basis based on the number and complexity of the displayed plants, and user settings such as the target frame rate. Within the limits you set in the display options, the engine tries to represent as much plant detail as possible.

OpenGL Sky Preview with Clouds

The sky preview uses a step-by-step refinement method to provide a picture of the sky and clouds with gradually full details (for best results, this preview uses multiple CPU calculations). Cloud preview can be disabled if needed. Camera exposure can be automatically reflected in OpenGL to provide more accurate scene previews (shader engine only). This option can also be disabled.

Interactive Cloud Control

Cloud layers can be processed like normal objects. When a layer appears in the Window of the World browser, it can be moved, rotated, and resized with standard manipulation wireframes. You can also use Vue's standard anime production tools to control the movement and speed of the cloud!

Realistic MetaCloud Preview

MetaClouds are represented as a series of shadow particles that represent their own final characteristics.

Realistic Sun Shadows

Real sun projection can be implemented in OpenGL. This gives immediate feedback to the sun projection in the final render.

Colored EcoSystem Billboards

Changes to the ecosystem instance colors are displayed in the Vue OpenGL viewport. This way you can better grasp the final rendering effect immediately. Shadow bulletin boards can provide the best visual effects and effectively represent a large number of ecosystem examples.

Customize Vue using Python Scripting

Vue comes with an extensible architecture that can be programmed across platform standards using Python application scripts. With Python scripts, you can use hundreds of internal structures and functions to formulate or automate tasks, or create entirely new rendering effects, ecosystem functions, animation scripts, and load / export programs customized for your internal file formats.

Sample Scripts

Vue contains dozens of example scripts that add functionality and illustrate some of the potential of Python scripts. All have ample file support and can be used as a basis for you to start customizing your scripts.

Customize Interfaces

Vue's powerful parameter publishing features have been extended, and now you can create high-level interfaces. You can create simplified advanced controls and call them directly from the Material Editor, Terrain Editor, or Object Editor! You can get the functionality of the function graph without opening the function editor! Advanced parameters can be animated through the timeline, including published material parameters. This gives you unprecedented control over the animation of your materials.

Playback Repetitive Tasks with Macro Automation

Macros can easily automate repetitive tasks by recording actual user interactions and saving them as XML files. Press the "Record Macro" button to start recording a series of operations and save them as macros to disk. Press the "Play Macro" button to replay any pre-recorded macro. After setting up common macros, you can use the "Macro Quick Start" dialog box for quick startup. You can also use this dialog box to assign shortcuts to frequently used macros.

Inviting, Easy-to-Use Interface

New Interface Design

One of the features of Vue 9 is a new interface design that is rationalized for better integration with existing pipelines.

Multi-Threaded Interface

Vue's interface is completely multi-threaded, and time-consuming programs run in the background, so it will not slow down work even when carrying out large projects.

Viewport Display Options

Switch between four windows and single window with one click. There are also normal and expert (full screen) modes to choose from. In these four viewing modes, you can freely organize or resize the display window. You can change the size of the camera preview and the window of the world browser. Real-time docking and floating timeline can be realized online, hide and show various interface elements.

Perspective View

Perspective view lets you pan, rotate and zoom the camera view. You can also use camera controls for perspective views.

Background Image

You can place a background reference image in any orthogonal display window.

Units and Conventions

Vue can display real metric and imperial units. Grid snaps can be achieved online and in real time when moving or rotating objects. The grid resolution and rotation snap values can be user-defined. You can also set the value of Vue's internal units to adjust the zoom scale of the panorama. You can also choose Y or Z as the upper axis.

Interface Colors

You can individually modify the colors of 37 different kinds of interface elements to achieve the most comfortable working environment you think. To quickly create a comfortable working environment, you can choose to use a preset that replicates the color schemes of your most used applications.

Visual Browsers

The visual browser lets you organize the folders in your collection. Each item in the collection comes with a preview and description.

Real-World Units

Real units are available throughout the application: in the material editor, in the terrain editor, in the function editor ... You can set the scale of the irregular shards in a unit you understand; you can scale the terrain according to real metrics-Vue to solve all the complex transformations!

Automatic Range Adaption

Automatic adaptation makes it easy to create function graphs with exported parameters. When you connect a node to an exported parameter, the input range is automatically adjusted to match the standard range of the parameter.

Time-Saving Tools and Helpers

Diagnosis Tools

To make it easier to detect rendering bottlenecks and optimize rendering time, Vue has the ability to generate diagnostic information on the rendering. For each pixel, it includes: the total rendering time of the pixel,

Number of anti-aliased rays,

Number of texture anti-aliasing examples,

The number of sub-rays in this pixel,

Number of shadow rays,

Sub-ray maximum recursion depth

And the number of samples that the pixel finally gathers.

This diagnostic information is also available in separate render channels, and each channel can be viewed directly in the render output window. Use the icons in the rendered output window to instantly switch between Color, Alpha, Z-Depth and Diagnosis.

Diagnostic channels can be generated on request (will slightly increase the overhead of the rendering program). The diagnostic channel gives you a better understanding of the overall rendering process.

Multi-Materials

Multi-material allows you to change all the materials of any given object in one operation. Multiple materials can be saved for future use. You can also copy and paste or drag between different objects in the scene.

Color Map and Filter Editors

The color map and filter editor can realize the movement of the key point group, and the change of the hue, saturation and luminosity of the key point group. You can also invert filters and color maps, copy and paste keyframe groups, and more.

Auto Saving and Scene Snapshots

Have you ever wanted to restore a scene to its state a few minutes ago but forgot to save it? Ever lost hours of work due to system errors? Autosave is the best solution! The unique and innovative technology developed by e-on can automatically save scenes in the background without reducing the speed of work! When you work, Vue will automatically create a scene backup, and the screenshot option allows you to create a scene backup instantly with the click of a button. This way you can quickly revert to the previous scene and undo the unwanted changes (beyond the undo / repeated limit).

Interactive Texture Placement

The texture layout tool enables interactive placement, rotation, and scaling of texture maps applied to objects.

Texture Resizing

The Window of the World browser includes an option to easily change the size of oversized texture maps. This operation is non-destructive, and the original texture map can be restored at any time if needed. You can also limit the resolution of imported textures when importing content from other applications.

Dumping Textures

All texture maps of the project can be easily dumped to a folder of your choice and automatically relinked to that location. This feature is especially effective when sharing large amounts of data with colleagues. At the same time, when all the bitmap data is collected to a network location, this function can also help speed up network rendering.

Viewing Textures

In the Window of the World browser, double-clicking a texture map will open a full-resolution image using the external bitmap application of your choice. Missing textures are identified as broken links.

Drop and SmartDrop Tools

The standard projection function can simply project the object onto the surface below it, while the intelligent projection tool tries to place the projected object in a natural way. For example, if a carton is projected onto an inclined plane, the carton is tilted to be parallel to the inclined plane.

The Interactive Alignment Tool

With this handy tool, you can interactively align one to three axes at the same time and preview the results in the display window.

The Quick Array Tool

This powerful tool lets you create multiple copies by interactively transforming one copy of an object. All instances obtained will automatically inherit the transformation in insert or extrapolate mode.

The Scatter / Replicate Tool

Use this tool to quickly generate multiple instances of an object with precise control over distance, size, and rotation, or to randomly spread instances in a specific area with a user-defined size and orientation change.

The Quick Color Selection Tool

Click and hold the mouse button to immediately select the desired color. Use the preset color swatches to easily save and reuse your most commonly used colors.

Catmull-Clark Subdlision Catmull-Clark

To improve compatibility with other applications, Vue 9.5 xStream will be paired with Catmull-Clark and Loop subdivision options. You can manually set the subdivision level for real-time performance and rendering time. The new subdivision algorithm and perfect normal maps absolutely guarantee compatibility with other applications, such as 3ds Max, MudBox, ZBrush, etc.

VUE configuration requirements

Minimum system requirements

Macintosh:

Mac OS X v10.5 and 10.6

2GHz Intel processor or faster,

1GB of free RAM, 1GB of available RAM,

200 MB of free hard disk space,

Windows

Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 32/64, Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 32/64,

2GHz Pentium IV or better processor, 2GHz Pentium IV or better processor,

1GB of free RAM, 1GB of available RAM,

200 MB of free Hard Disk space,

65K colors / 16 bit (24 + bit recommended 1024 x 768).

An OpenGL accelerated video board is not necessary, but it is a great advantage.

Recommended system configuration

Windows 64 bit (XP, Vista or Windows 7),

Mac OS X v10.6 64-bit Windows (XP, Vista or Windows 7),

V10.6 Multi-core CPU for Mac OS X (Intel QuadCore, Core I7, or Mac Pro),

Multi-core CPU (Intel QuadCore, Core i7 or Mac Professional Edition)

4GB + of RAM, + 4GB of memory,

4GB + of free Hard Disk space (on the drive hosting the OS),

+ 4GB of available hard disk space for the operating system drive (),

An OpenGL-accelerated video board (see below for best compatibility)

Supported Video Boards

The committee will fulfill the following using the new rendering engine. Other boards may not be implemented using the shading engine, but will be executed using one of the old fixed pipelines. In any case, Vue can execute OpenGL software, whether it is a video board.

Windows ::

All boards with NVidia Quadro, GeForce8 / 9 and GT200 chips, ATI FirePro V8000 series with up-to-date drivers (ie not on original CD) The latest drivers (V8000 series ie no original CD) Boards with ATI Radeon 4800 series with updated drivers will work, but can suffer small performance issues. The latest driver committee with ATI Radeon 4800 series will work, but can withstand small Performance issues. New ATI 5800 series remains untested at this point. The new ATI 5800 series remains untested at this point.

Macintosh:

For all boards of NVidia GeForce and GT200 chips, all boards of ATI Radeon HD and 4800 series (10.3.13+ required). The council is not on this list with Vue, but has not been extensively tested. If you encounter any OpenGL issues, try disabling background painting and anti-aliasing in the options panel. Worst case scenario: You can always run Vue software in OpenGL mode.

Recommended chips:

Windows ::

nVidia GT260 / 275/280. nVidia's GT260 / 275/280. nVidia QuadroFX 1800/3800 (5800 untested but should work fast and stable).

ATI FirePro V8000 series with up-to-date drivers (ie not on original CD).

Macintosh: nVidia GT series. NVidia's GT series. ATI HD 2600 and 4000 series. ATI's HD 2600 and 4000 series.

Not recommended:

Windows: Windows: Before all ATI Radeon 4000 series. ATI's 9000 series, X series and HD series may work, but with fewer options, you may experience a severe slowdown. ATI's FireGL series 5000 series.

Macintosh :: Will Intel-based graphics processors and nVidia 7300 accelerate with Vue (and hardware).

Supported applications

Windows

3DSMax (and 3DSMax Design)

32bit version: 3DSMax 7 to 2010 *

64bit version: 3DSMax 9 to 2010 *

Cinema 4D

32bit version: Cinema 4D R9.6 to R11.5

64bit version: Cinema 4D R9.6 to R11.5

LightWave 3D

32bit version: LightWave 3D 9.3 to 9.6

64bit version: LightWave 3D 9.3 to 9.6

Maya

32bit version: Maya 6 to 2010

64bit version: Maya 8 to 2010

Softimage | XSI

32bit version: XSI 5.1 to Softimage 2010

64bit version: XSI 5.1 to Softimage 2010

3ds Max 2009 SP1 is highly recommended.

Macintosh

Cinema 4D

Universal Binary version (32bit *):

Universal Binary version (32bit *):

LightWave 3D 9.3 to 9.6

Maya

Universal Binary version (32bit *):

Maya 8.5 to 2010 (2009 and 2010 is MacIntel only)

If the host application supports 64-bit, you need the boot mode, which is in 32-bit and allows the integration plugin for XStream to be loaded.