Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘Tutorial’
Vue Lighting Rigs
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Three years ago I ran a series of posts on my blog of different lighting rigs for use with Vue, mostly based on simple theatrical rigs. I’m in the process of updating them with new renders and creating pages in my site for them. The first one is now available Single Spot Overhead. I’m also […]
Vue Cloud Tutorial Night
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009I’ve added pages for two of the Vue tutorials that were previously lost in my blog to my tutorial pages tonight: Cloud Layer Sculpting in Vue Punching Holes in the Sky I’ve also changed the rather empty front page of my Vue section to include the latest post from the Vue News Blog and the […]
Add Material Layer Tutorial Video
Monday, August 24th, 2009I’ve made a short tutorial video which hopefully demonstrates how to edit the addlayertoall.py python script for Vue
Vue Python for Beginners Updated
Friday, July 3rd, 2009I’ve added the first new stuff to impworks since putting the reworked site. My first video tutorial, an update to Vue Python for Beginners, showing how to run a Python script in Vue 7 Infinite.
Too Many Things
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009I think I need a few extra hours in the day – if I did each of the following would probably be its own post… Having finished a fascinating book on illegal gambling in the UK in the ’50s I started reading the first volume of Michael Palins’ diaries on Saturday and there a great […]
Definitly Too Many Ideas
Thursday, May 1st, 2008I’m having one of those weeks where I just seem to be constantly juggling projects… I’ve almost finished Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom. I’ve been retooling some of my old Ravenloft adventures for a more recent version of D&D. I’ve been answering questions about Vue 6 Tutorial: Cloud Layer Sculpting. I completely […]
Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting- Part 3
Monday, April 21st, 2008Last week in part 2 of Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting – Part 2 I covered two variations on a three point lighting rigs. Tonight I’ll cover another of the variations. Again the key light is at 30 degrees to the horizontal and 45 degrees from the front of the subject to be […]
Softening the Edges of God Rays
Thursday, April 10th, 2008I was asked how to soften the edges of the god rays falling on the ground when following my Punching Holes in the Sky tutorial. Fortunately its pretty straight forward: select the sun and in its settings change softness to something like 5 or 10 degrees to get a softer effect. You may need to […]
101 Ways to Lose Time #23
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008I was doing some tidying up and sorting out over the weekend when I came across the files of notes from my old gaming campaigns I ran at University. Leafing through them was a bad idea as I found the Ravenloft campaigns I ran for several years as introductory games for freshers. Some would say […]
Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting
Monday, March 17th, 2008I’ve covered a selection of theatrical lighting rigs already that use three lights. I was sent an e-mail asking if I’d show a definitive version of the classic three point lighting rig used for film, television, photography and computer graphics. I’m not going to claim to have any experience of using this rig, I have […]