Vue is an advanced, feature rich but easy to use environment creation software, capable of rendering extremely realistic scenes, the way Vue manages environments is indeed a breakthrough, if Vue did not exist then realistic environment creation would still be one of the impossibilities in the field of CGI.
The unique and efficient way that Vue manages environments is that they bring instancing into play, making it light on the RAM and increasing productivity, in fact this way is so powerful that Vue can render scenes over 50 billion polygons dense, Vue reduces the actual scene to an order of a few thousand polygons in the viewport and when you hit render it brings in the real meat and soul of the environment to life.
Apart from polygons Vue has advanced in many other environmental effects such as volumetric and advanced light rendering, the water rendering that Vue is capable of is just beautiful, volumetric and spectral clouds add a ton of life to the scene and a lighting system that is aware of what time of day you are aiming the scene to be at, not to mention the extremely powerful Ecosystem feature that comes in Vue, that allows you to create very realistic, very dense and highly interactive foliage in your scene you can literally populate forests with it.
Coming to the integration with your favorite 3D application, as of Vue 7 the integration of Vue in conjunction with 3dsmax and Maya has been improved dramatically and has actually become a lot more fun and productive to use, indeed a great upgrade from Vue 6, the integration that Vue 6 had or at least what they called it, was a good way to increase your stress, give you a headache and make your work slower and more painful all at wonderful price of over a 1000 bucks, since that is not the case anymore and Vue integrates into your workflow better than any other software out there, it now acts like a plug-in inside your application giving you all the creation tools without ever leaving the comfort of the native 3D application while at the same time utilizing Vue’s mind blowing rendering system.
Once Vue’s world in integrated with the scene in your 3D application the results can be amazing, Vue uses the Mental Ray rendering engine that comes in Autodesk’s 3D applications, you can control and use lighting and shaders from your application as well as Vue and the best part is that you can populate forests and paint foliage using Vue’s Ecosystem without crashing your system, as the use of Ecosystem's can lead to a scene as heavy as 10 billion or more polygons, all that can be rendered on a modest system so you won't go bankrupt buying massive servers to get small jobs done.
Vue is indeed a very powerful piece of software and one can’t disagree that it is in fact a breakthrough in the field of CGI.
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