Vue 5 Esprit

Vue Esprit is the award-winning, complete 3D studio to create, render and animate ultra-realistic 3D natural environment. Vue 5 Esprit is the latest release, for Windows and Mac OS X. Combining incredible ease of use with the underlying power of the latest lighting techniques in the 3D industry, a fully featured toolkit and Vue’s never beaten render speed, you can grow photo-realistic pieces of art in minutes. Vue 5 Esprit comes with 2 CDs, bursting with amazing features including procedural Terrain for infinite details, an intuitive Text editor for creative titling effects, Metablobs organic modeling, 50+ ultra-detailed SolidGrowth 3 Plant species…And so much more! You won’t be believing your eyes!

Features

Lighting and atmosphere

• Ultra-Realistic Volumetric Atmosphere Model
• 100 predefined atmospheres
• 70 predefined shapes of clouds, unlimited layers of clouds
• Volumetric clouds; volumetric lights (visible rays, with optional dust).
• Point light, Quadratic point light, Spotlight, Quadratic spotlight, Directional light
• Complete lens flare system with global/local settings.
• Light gels with realistic projection modes.
• Stars, rainbows and ice rings.
• Caustics in the shadows of transparent materials. Caustics realistically depend on the Index of Refraction.
• Adjustable light shadow density, negative lights.
• Soft shadows, blurred reflections and transparencies, depth of field.
• Shadow and volumetric light optimization for dramatic increase in rendering speed.
• Image based lighting
• HDRI
• Global Illumination
• EasyGI global illumination adjustment.
• Global Radiosity
• Adjustment of global light intensity

Materials

• Luminous and glowing materials.
• Volumetric materials
• Anti-aliasing can be disabled for given materials.
• Receive shadows material option.
• Backlight option (for one-sided materials only) for realistic backlighting of opaque materials.
• Previewing of materials can be limited to the active window.
• Direct access to all materials inside multi-material objects.
• Basic material editor
• Advanced material editors, New SmartGraph function editor, Advanced procedural texturing engine
• 2 Material mapping modes (world and objects) with 4 parameters each: standard, cylindrical, spherical and parametric)
• Summary of materials to quickly get access to all materials in the scene

Environment modeling

• 8 preset terrain styles, 4 types of erosion and 12 geological algorithms
• Real-Time Terrain Modeling Technology
• Skin terrains.
• Procedural Terrains with the ability to switch from one form of terrain to another easily
• Pressure sensitive tablet terrain editing.
• Symmetrical terrains.
• Random rock generator.
• Planets (Moon and other planets of the solar system).
• Primitive and Boolean modeling with OpenGL previewing
• Complete set of import filters that import fully textured models from other 3D applications.
• Textured terrain exports.
• Static Poser 4 & 5 scene import
• Import fully textured models from other 3D applications.
• 50+ Ultra-Realistic SolidGrowth™ 3 Plant Species (compatible with Vue Professional plant Editor)
• Instantly create variations of existing plants.
• Several meshes can be welded together into a single, more complex one.
• True Metablob objects from all Vue Boolean primitives (cube, cone, torus, cylinder, sphere...)
• Text edition tool with Bevel, Extrusion... effects
• Background and environment mapping

User interface

• Efficient, Uncluttered Interface Layout
• Fast Multi-Threaded Interface for swift response
• World Browser for efficient management of complex projects
• Objects can be organized in 8 layers
• Possibility of doing everything using the main view only.
• Objects can be locked/hidden independently.
• Object resizing relative to opposite corner (toggle).
• Pivot position in object coordinates (toggle). Pivot position can be reset.
• Replication tool with given position/size/orientation offset.
• Render area can be temporarily disabled.
• Mapped pictures can be blended with a solid color (bitmapped materials).
• Automatic detection and creation of new browser collections.
• Panoramic rendering with adjustable rotation angle.
• Dual-processor rendering.
• Pictures larger than screen resolution can be rendered to screen.
• Navigation inside the rendered picture using pan controls.
• Linear and angular snapping grids when moving and rotating objects
• Drop button to easely set your object on the terrain surface
• Scatter/Replicate tool can automatically generate variations of the replicated objects
• Optimized Rendering Technologies
• Automatic software updating (can be disabled)
• Optimized for G5 & P4 HT.
• Non-modal terrain editor

Animation and camera controls

• Trackball-type camera operations and advanced camera management grouped into a Camera Control Center.
• Direct editing of filter key points and tangents.
• Animate objects, materials, atmospheres, clouds, waves...
• Dynamic Motion Reaction and Animation Wizard for easy animation setup.
• Separate animation channel for camera exposure.
• Each camera possesses a target object for easier aiming and setting of focus point.
• Camera targets can be linked to other objects in the scene (e.g. to automatically keep that object in focus)
• Broadcast Quality Animations.
• Advanced Animation Controls (Keyframing, Timesplines, Forward Dynamics, Spin, Vibration, Motion Blur...).
• Cameras post processing filters to adjust color, contrast, saturation, gamma...
• Animatable post processing filters
• Camera switcher lets you switch cameras during render (ideal for storyboarding).
• Compatible with Mover 5 to import animated Poser4 & 5 characters.
• Easy setup of cloud movement using direction and speed of movement controls.
• Blurred reflections and refractions for each material independently
• Rendering in unlimited color depth
• Alpha and Z depth directly calculated during the render
• Pre-animated Mesh support

Preview

• Real-time thumbnail render preview
• All preview displays are fully anti-aliased
• Wireframe preview option
• Ultra-fast OpenGL preview with instant and detailed feedback.
• Automatic checking of OpenGL driver compatibility.
• Realistic plant and planet previews.
• Texture map preview.
• Lens flare and atmosphere previews.
• Automatic selection of preview color based on procedural material color.
• Automatic mesh decimation to speed-up instant previewing.
• Axis preview displayed in viewports
• Fully customizable OpenGL previewing options.
• Non-OpenGL previewing option.