E-on software, the leading developer of solutions for the creation, animation, rendering and integration of natural 3D environments, announced the immediately availability of Vue 11.5 xStream and Infinity. Vue xStream and Infinity are used for creating and rendering realistic natural environments in 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave, Cinema 4D and Softimage. Both solutions offered by E-on Software combines a multitude of cutting edge features which can be easily integrated into existing production pipelines. The difference between those two versions is the integration into the existing pipelines. While Vue Infinite operates as a standalone application, Vue xStream can be integrated inside 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, LightWave and Cinema4D. The new feature set included inside Vue 11.5 was developed according the most recent production feedback from e-on software's users. The necessary interaction of E-on Software with their users allowed creating many feature and interface optimizations, leading to a better, faster and more streamlined workflow. Between the new features belongs EcoCollision already introduced with Vue 11.
This revolutionary technology can now make EcoParticles collide with EcoSystem instances where Vue 11’s Rain and Snow weather effects belongs also.
New features inside Vue 11.5
- EcoCollision:Introduced with Vue 11, the revolutionary EcoParticle technology can now make EcoParticles collide with EcoSystem instances. This also works with Vue 11's Rain and Snow weather effects.
- Render Stack Improvements:Many improvements have been added to the Render Stack such as flipping renders horizontally, merging render areas, reloading camera settings or setting stacks per scene.
- Improved Material Management:The material summary was redesigned for improved display and manipulations of all materials in the scene. Material management from the World Browser also received several productivity enhancements.
- Color Input/Ouput Function in the Post Render Options:A new Color Channel Editor (Color curves) is available from the Post Render Options, allowing direct and precise color adjustment directly in Vue.
- World Browser Improvements:Many productivity enhancements were added to the world browser such as massive responsiveness gain thanks to internal optimization and new display options for materials, objects and layers.
- Camera Management Improvements:Camera attributes can be frozen to avoid any unwanted modification to camera animation paths. Camera can also be saved and reloaded as Vue objects files.
- RenderNode GI Prepass-only Rendering:The Vue 11.5 RenderNodes can be set to only render the GI pre-pass and save it for future use allowing major gain in network rendering time.
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Vue 11.5 is available free of charge for all users under maintenance. All users which purchased Vue 11 xStream or Infinite within 30 days of the rellease of Vue 11.5 will get the new version free of charge.
Availability
Vue 11.5 xStream and Vue 11.5 Infinite are available in English for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and on Mac OSX 10.5+ (Mac Intel only), for both 32 and 64 bit.
Vue 11.5 xStream is compatible with the following renderers:
- 3ds Max 2008 to 2014: MentalRay (integrated and MR satellites), V-Ray
- Maya 2008 to 2014: MentalRay (integrated and MR satellites), V-Ray, Maya Software
- Softimage | XSI 7.0 to 2014: MentalRay (integrated and MR satellites)
- Cinema 4D R11 to R14: native renderer
- LightWave 9.3 to 11.5: native renderer
More information at: E-on Software