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Heavy Fog in Virtual Venice

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Just playing with a heavy fog atmosphere in Vue 6 Infinite. The water is a flat plain with a slightly tweaked dark water material added and the bump map turned into a displacement map. The model is the Bridge of Sighs from Cornucopia 3d.

Vue Python Mass File Conversion Script 0.2

Monday, November 27th, 2006

A fix for some changes I made to clean up version 0.1 of the script for release that as an unfortunate side effect broke it! For more details and to download version two see my web site: Mass Convert Vue Python Script

EcoSystem to CSV / CSV to EcoSystem

Friday, November 24th, 2006

EcoSystem to CSV / CSV to EcoSystem, the last of the Vue Python scripts on the impworks site, have now been cleared as working and so I’ve added a page for it and updated the zip file. That frees me up to concentrate on new work. First on the list will be the revamped object […]

Characters on the Couch

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

I really need to come up with something else to blog about on Wednesday’s. Honest I will. For next week. Really. Until then though I’ve put up a PDF of the complete Characters on the Couch on the all new impworks On Writing page.

Vue Python Mass File Conversion Script

Monday, November 20th, 2006

A new python script for vue that loads all the 3d files of a specified format from a directory and saves them in another format into a specified directory. Uses Vue to do the conversion (I’ve tested it in vue 6 pre release). It can convert between obj, 3ds, lwo, c4d ,cob, dxf and shd […]

Ivy Close Up

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Glad to answer questions and requests when I’ve got the time Incredibly Lush Ivy Kit especially when it saves me having to come up with something to post on an otherwise pretty dull Saturday. I rendered it against a simple displacement mapped brick wall although not a lot of it is showing through.

Last Nights Vue 6 Render Tonight

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

Finally finished the render I’d was going to post last night. Not that it took all day to render. Just couldn’t get it to look anywhere near what I wanted. The ivy is from Linda’s Incredibly Lush Ivy Kit and there are some other plants from her Underbrush pack too. The ruin is a model […]

Characters on the Couch (Part 18)

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

There really isn’t a part 19 but I thought I’d finish up with a list of all the parts. Introduction Drivers The Ruler Archetype The Creator Archetype The Care Giver Archetype The Jester Archetype The Regular Guy/Gal Archetype The Lover Archetype The Hero Archetype The Outlaw Archetype The Magician Archetype The Innocent Archetype The Explorer […]

Object Sequence Vue Python Script Soon With RealFlow Support

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Spent the day working on my 3d Object Sequence Loader Script for Vue. After some work added in support for loading RealFlow Mesh Object Sequences into Vue. However the supporting web pages and stuff won’t be ready till Monday night. So in the mean time here is a short (3 second) animation that shows off […]

Vue 6 Infinite Sunset

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

A quick render of one of my old scenes using Vue 6 Infinite with one of the new out of the box spectral atmospheres and global ambience for lighting. The earlier Vue 5 Infinite renders can be seen in my post from a few months ago: Sunset Pictures.

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