Vue 5

These are the Vue 5 pages on this site.

'Powder snow' material

Cornucopia 3D challenge winner This was my winning material for the Cornucopia 3D December 2005 challenge - a 'powder snow' material. You can download the material from the link below. The image shows what it looks like (click thumbnail for a larger image):

Download the material (.zip file, 6K)

Latest project

With the release of Vue 5 Infinite, the Vue function editor - used for materials and for such things as the altitudes of procedural terrains - has become ever more complex. There are numerous nodes available - but what do they all do? And how do you know what the nodes will look like without trying each one? The new manual at least has some images but they are monochrome and only give one example.

The Vue 5 function node project is an attempt to produce reference sheets for all the available nodes, giving images of what each node does. For the latest version, please see the function node pages.

Tutorials

A short tutorial on how to remove the atmosphere from Vue renders can be found on the tutorials page.

My first Vue tutorial, on the use of terrain height maps, is available in three forms - if you download the complete archive you don't need to download the terrain maps or PDF file separately:

the complete archive - PDF tutorial plus a collection of terrain maps (.zip file, 1.66 Mb)
the tutorial alone just the PDF file if you don't want the example height maps(420K)
or the terrain maps without the PDF if you just want the maps and not the tutorial (.zip file, 1.30 Mb)

Page last updated: January 27th 2006