eonite opened this issue on Apr 18, 2009 · 89 posts
eonite posted Sat, 18 April 2009 at 12:48 PM
Hello!
My name is Dick Scherzinger (artists name: eonite) from Switzerland. Got into CG in 2002.
I don`t expect anyone to know me in the Vue community. Have been active in the Artmatic/Voyager scene in the last couple of years. Lots of pictures/tutorials/presetcollections.
Also running an Artmatic related website (http://www.artmatica.ch)
A couple of months ago I decided to get into Vue. What interested me most was to explore Vue`s function editor. Artmatic works with a function graph as well, so it was relatively easy to get into it.
What thrills me about Vue is its incredible potential. Its much slower than Artmatic Voyager but it has some features that I have always been missing.
When exploring Vue`s cloud presets and options I noticed something. While the Cumulus clouds looked really impressive and convincing I found that the high altitude clouds (cirrus&friends) were not equally taken care of. They looked to me more like random patches or streaks.
In Artmatic/Voyager I spent a lot of time trying to capture the beauty of cirrus clouds...and I found out that the techniques acquired over the years could be equally applied in Vue`s function editor.
Currentyl I`m building function trees and create MetaNodes with the relevant parameters extracted, which should generate some natural looking high altitude clouds.
Below are a couple of work renders, so you get an impression of what I`m working on.
Btw. this forum and all the Vue online tutorials really helped me to learn the basics of Vue Infinite. Thank you very much, namely the folks at GeekatPlay, Chipp Walters and Silverblade (recently bought a PC following your specs).
Actually I wanted to share a couple of files but was not sure wether zipped files could be unzipped by everyone and if the Vue 7 Infinite files were compatible with other versions of Vue.
Cheers,
Dick