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What We Have

Tutorials for e-on software's 'Vue 3D' program

  Directory of Vue tutorials all over the web (please suggest your own favorites)

  Our own Vue tutorials:

       I'm a big fan of Vue 5 Infinite and will be writing many tutorials. So far:

          Vue Camera lens focal lengths

          Understanding image file formats

          Lighting Interiors and Radiosity - Part 1

          Vue 5 Volumetric lighting (web pages)   Vue 5 Volumetric lighting (pdf)

          Fixing problems with props and dynamic hair imported from Poser


Video Tutorials (voice narrated)

          Vue 5 Materials video, including Function Editor & Filter Editor (5 part video with voice)

          Function Editor Basics 1 - Intro, jargon, 'step' function and bump map added to a sphere

                Download: 16MB ZIP file.(Copyrighted content for personal use only - please do not distribute)

          Function Editor Basics 2 - Inputs and outputs, noise functions, combining 2 functions into 1 effect

                Download: 21MB ZIP file. (Copyrighted content for personal use only - please do not distribute)

          Function Editor Basics 3 - Part 1 - Make and map a 'concrete' material for a pier with seaweed.

                Download: 31MB ZIP file. (Copyrighted content for personal use only - please do not distribute)

          Function Editor Basics 4 - Part 2 - Mixed Materials: Make 'seaweed', mix with previous 'concrete'.

                Download: 29MB ZIP file. (Copyrighted content for personal use only - please do not distribute)

          Function Editor Basics 5 - Final video - UV mapping, using an image map instead of a Vue material.

                Download: 27MB ZIP file. (Copyrighted content for personal use only - please do not distribute)

3D Models:

These models were made in SIlo 3D, then textured and saved to the Vue .vob format in Vue 5 Infinite. Users who have tested them tell me they also work in other Vue 5 versions.

 

1 - Silver Spacecraft (on the ground)

In Vue .VOB format only, so far...

View large image

Download

 2 - Model room for lighting tests (please see interior lighting tutorial):

Vue .vob format.

Download (.ZIP containing Vue .VOB model)

3 - Walking Cane, silver and bamboo (~5k polys)

Vue .vob format

Download 1 (.ZIP containing uncompressed Vue .VOB model)

Download 2 (.ZIP containing compressed Vue .VOB model)

4 - Earth model, with city lights, clouds, atmosphere (~1.6MB)

Vue .vob format

Download Model (.ZIP containing compressed Vue .VOB model)
Download Vue 5 Infinite Scene (.ZIP containing Vue scene file)

3D Earth Model details

 

5 - Spaceship model 2

Vue .vob format

Download (.ZIP containing compressed Vue .VOB model - 4.4MB)

Download (.ZIP containing uncompressed Vue .VOB model - 4.3MB)

Science Fiction background 'facts'


 

Photos for 3D texturing:

 Photos page and Index

 

3Vue Materials and Functions:

Please note that many of these Vue materials and their underlying functions are not totally original, but are modified from the materials that ship with Vue Infinite.

Terrain, Rock, Soil:

 

1 - Arabian desert mountain 1


Download: JC_Arab Mount1.mat

 

2 - Concrete Oil Spill 1


Download: JC_Concrete Oil Spill6.mat

 

3 - Concrete 1

Download: JC_Concrete1.mat

 

4 - Concrete 2

Download: JC_Concrete2.mat

 

5 - Speckled Gray 1

Download: JC_Speckled Gray1.mat

 

6 - Natural Soil 1

Download: JC_Natural Soil1.mat

 

7 - Dark Green Cover 1

Download: JC_Dark Green Cover1.mat

 

8 - Pavers 1

Download: JC_Concrete Pavers1.mat

 

9 - Gray Marble 5

Download: JC_Gray Marble5.mat

 

10 - Pink Marble 2

Download: JC_Pink Marble2.mat

 

11 - Yellow Marble 6

Download: JC_Yellow Marble6.mat

 

12 - Blue Rock 1

Download: JC_ BluRok1.mat

 

13 - Blue Rock 2 (Displacement)

Download: JC_ BluRokD2.mat

Coverings:

 

1 - Leather 1

Download: JC_Leather1.mat

 

2 - Leather 2

Download: JC_Leather2.mat

 

3 - Leather 3

Download: JC_Leather3.mat

 

4 - White Plastic Dimples 1

Download: JC_White Plastic Dimples1.mat

 

5 - White Plastic Dimples + Dirt 1

Download: JC_White Plastic Dimples Dirt1.mat

 

6 - Mossy Bricks 1

Download: JC_ Mossy Brick1 .mat   Download texture image: BrickWall.bmp

 

7 - Mossy Bricks 2 (Displacement)

Download: JC_ Mossy BrickD2 .mat

 

8 - Yellow Danger Stripes 1

Download: JC_YelDangerStripes1.mat   Download texture image: 45-stripes1.png

 

9 - Yellow & Red Danger Stripes (Concrete texture background)

Download: JC_Yel-RedDangerStripes1.mat   Download texture image: JCWarnconcre5d.jpg

 

10 - Olive Drab Paint1

Download: JC_Olive Drab Paint1.mat

 

11 - Stained Yellow/Orange Paint 5

 

Download: JC_YelOrn Dirt5.mat

 

12 - Grigri 1 (Displacement)

Download: JC_Rand SquaresD1.mat

 

13 - Solar Cells 1

Download: JC_Solar Cell1.mat

 

14 - Chainlink Fence 1

Download: JC_Chainlink Fence1.mat

 

15 - Checks 1

Download: JC_B&W Quarters1.mat


Lighting:

1 - Window Shade 1 (Use on 1-sided planes)

Download: JC_Window Shade1.mat

 

2 - Fire 4 (Use on a cone)

Download: JC_Fire4.mat

 

3 - Glass Lens 1

Download: JC_ Lens1.mat

 

4 - Wavy Water for Caustics (Use Photon Mapping 2M to 5M)

Download: JC_Wavy Caustics Water1.mat

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