May 7, 2001. Beaverton, OR. USA and Europe-based e-on software
announces Vue d'Esprit 4 (Vue 4), the next version of its award
winning 3D scenery animation and rendering software. Vue 4 advances
a new ease-of-use architecture and adds a long list of advanced
realism features for the creation of ultra natural 3D graphics.
"Vue d'Esprit 4 represents a huge advance in making ultra natural
3D graphics and animation accessible and affordable to both casual
and professional artists. Artists can decide just how much of the
natural world they want to have in their work. Vue 4 isn't about
the great technology, its about placing nature's paintbrush into
the hands of the artist without the complexity of the paintbrush
getting in the way of the results," said Nicholas Phelps, president
of e-on software. Some of the new advanced realism features in Vue
4 include: -A whole new volumetric atmosphere system that closely
captures the complex interactions of air and light; volumetric
clouds, materials and lights -Lens flares, stellar and Atmospheric
objects - planets (moons and other planets of the solar system),
stars, rainbows and ice rings -A new Terrain Editor with real-time
3D preview, random rock generator, symmetrical terrains
-SolidGrowth 2, an advance on e-on software's amazingly realistic
tree and plant creation and rendering technology that creates
unique natural objects within a click, all within an extremely
small memory footprint -Direct import of static Curious Lab's Poser
Scenes for inclusion of complex animal and human models Other new
special effects and new functions include: Luminous and glowing
materials, light gels, unlimited transparency depth, several new
shadow features, backlighting and anti-aliasing options for higher
quality rendering. Vue 4 will add MPEG 1, MPEG 2, Quicktime,
RealMovie, Quicktime VR, PICT and TIFF import/export filters.
"The Poser team at < a
href="http://www.curiouslabs.com">Curious Labs is excited that
Vue 4 will allow immediate inclusion of Poser scenes. We are sure
the Poser community will be excited about how well Poser and Vue
work together to create complex, naturalistic scenes with humans,
animals, vegetation and atmospheric phenomena," said Steve Cooper,
President of Curious Labs, Inc. Long-time Vue users will welcome a
new interface with even greater ease of use features, such as high
quality OpenGL scene previews and a real-time thumbnail render of
the scene. Vue 4 will also feature a completely rewritten rendering
engine that will increase rendering speed by 40%. Vue d'Esprit 4
will be available in English, French, German and Japanese language
versions, with an estimated street price of $199. Additional
information about Vue d'Esprit and other e-on software products is
available on the e-on software website. See some preview screen
shots from
Vue 4,
including a sample rendering with some of the new effects. About
e-on software Founded in 1997, e-on software was established to
develop and promote the highest quality graphics tools with
professional strength features. Established by graphics enthusiasts
for graphics enthusiasts, e-on software translates its passion for
art into tools for the graphics community. E-on software has
offices in Beaverton, Oregon USA and Paris, France. The company has
achieved worldwide reputation for its award winning 3D scenery
generator Vue d'Esprit. Contact e-on software USA 503-646-4857 e-on
software Europe 33-1-431-42815
