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Getting Started with Vue 8

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Instructor	Run Time	Media Format	Video Resolution	Download File Size
Nicholas Pellegrino	6h 46m	MP4 \ Flash	1000 x 800 px	544 MB (.zip)

Explore the features and workflow of Vue 8 Infinite and xStream standalone. Immediately dive right into this amazing application and learn to create amazing scenes. This training is useful to all Vue users, and requires no previous knowledge. Although, even advanced users will find this training helpful.

This training contains several projects designed to teach you how to use Vue efficiently, and covers features in typical usage scenarios. Learn to navigate in Vue and understand the users interface.
Learn time savers, rendering techniques, & more!

The first lesson starts with constructing a simple scene. Teaching you to control the four primary operation types in Vue;
Terrains, Materials, Ecosystems, & Atmospheres. As the training progresses, you'll dive deeper into the interface learning more and more tools and techniques; along with their applied usage and importance in creating amazing scenes.

Content is also included with the training.
Among it you will find scene files, materials, atmospheres, textures, and more.

To learn more about the lessons and projects in this training. Below you will find video screen shots, scene images, and some of the main topics covered in each part of the training. You can also use the topic jumps located below.

Training Lessons

Click on a lesson to jump to the lesson description.

1.	Quick Start Scene

2.	Controlling Procedural Terrains, Landscape Materials, & the Sea

3.	Infinite & Planetary Terrains, Spherical Scenes

4.	Terrain Sculpting & Material Distributions

5.	Autumn Scene
5.
6.	Spectral Clouds & Atmospheric Animation
6.
7.	Understanding Wind & Breeze
7.
8.	Object Operations & Manipulations
8.
9.	Cameras, Navigation, & Rendering

1.) Quick Start Scene

A project based introduction to Vue. Building a simple scene and learning the primary operations of Vue. Four primary lessons designed to get you familiar with the Vue workflow.

Lessons and Topics in this training set:

Terrains

Materials

	Using Gizmos
	Changing viewports
	Navigation of the UI
	Standard and Procedural terrains
	Creating Object Layers
	Editing Standard terrains
	Defining terrain resolutions
	Terrain erosion and effects

	Editing material scales
	Changing materials
	Editing Mixed Materials
	Swapping materials
	Controlling distribution settings
	The material summary

Ecosystems

Atmospheres

	Populating ecosystems
	Previewing ecosystems
	Using the material environment tab
	Preserving material scale when using ecosystems

	Adding and edit cloud layers
	Controlling the sun and atmospherics
	Aerial perspective and light scattering
	Fast radiosity rendering

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

2.) Controlling Procedural Terrains, Landscape Materials, & Sea

Controlling procedural terrains and the sea. Landscape material techniques.

Topics in this training lesson:

	Setting Default Terrain Resolutions
	Controlling Procedural Terrains
	Terrain Coordinates
	Using the World Coordinate System
	Controlling Functions and Procedurals
	Using the sea object
	changing and customizing water materials
	Editing Terrain Functions
	Using Custom Dependencies

	Setting up a layered terrain material
	Creating custom dependencies to control layered materials
	Using procedural terrain graph outputs
	Linking materials to graphs
	Adding sand below water surface and along costs
	Improving highlight realism and surface glare of sea materials.
	Using the Terrain Fractal
	Editing MetaWater Materials

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

3.) Infinite Terrains, Planetary Terrains, and Spherical Scenes

Topics in this training lesson:

	Loading and Saving Terrain Presets
	Understanding Infinite Terrains
	Generating New Terrains
	Display Optimization and Video Card Notes
	Converting procedural terrains to infinite terrains

	Creating and editing Terrain Zones
	Spherical Scenes
	Planetary terrains and infinite planes.
	Navigation techniques for spherical scenes
	Fading terrain zones
	Applying Planetary Cloud Maps to Cloud Layers

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

4.) Terrain Sculpting & Material Distributions

Learn to use the Terrain Editor to create custom terrains and distribute material surfaces.

Topics in this training lesson:

	Changing the preview height controlled color.
	Symmetrical Terrains and the skin only command.
	Filtering Altitudes and Noises
	Using Images as Brushes
	Effect and Erosion Controlled Material Distribution
	Exporting the Material Distribution Map

	Painting Material Distributions
	3D Terrain Sculpting
	Resetting Material Distributions
	Controlling Terrains by importing Height Maps
	Previewing the scene in the Terrain Editor

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

5.) Autumn Scene

Five part project based training.
Ecosystems, the ecosystem Painter, and customizing Plant species.

Lessons and Topics in this training set:

Setup and HDRI
Forest Ecosystem and Lighting
Customizing Vegetation (Fallen Leaves)
Layered Ecosystem Effects/Affects
Ecosystem Painting and Instance Editing

	Creating an HDRI Background Image
	Rendering a Spherical Scene
	Setting up HDRI lighting and background image
	Matching the Sun Light
	Copy and Pasting Materials
	Dragging Materials onto objects
	Decay Near Foreign Objects
	Ignoring objects from from decayed populations
	Using Shadow Maps
	Editing Vegetation Subsets
	Creating New Plant Species
	Changing Plant Materials

	Editing leaf hooking points
	Ecosystem layer specifics
	Affinity and Repulsion from Layer
	Customizing Wind and Breeze
	Ecosystem Density, Scale, and Orientation Options
	Ecosystem Painting
	The Ecosystem Selector
	Increasing and Decreasing Plant Resolutions
	Converting Instances to Objects
	Editing the Global Ecosystem Object
	Radiosity Render Settings
	Fog and Haze with the Environment lighting Model.

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

6.) Spectral Clouds and Atmospheric Animation

Topics in this training lesson:

	Editing Meta Clouds and Materials
	adding Meta Cloud primitives
	Building Cloud Shapes
	adjusting and loading Meta Clouds Materials
	cloud material mapping modes
	Cloud Layer Animation

	Settings any light to affect cloud layers and Meta Clouds
	Cloud Shadow Settings
	Notes about Altitude Variations
	Cloud Decay around objects
	Atmosphere Animation

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

7.) Understanding Wind and Breeze

Learn to use the Terrain Editor to create custom terrains and distribute material surfaces.

Topics in this training lesson:

	Wind vs. Breeze
	Using and Controlling Ventilators

	Controlling Wind with Plant Handles
	Ecosystem Wind and Breeze Options

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

8.) Object Operations and Manipulation

Topics in this training lesson:

	Repeat Operation Subdivide and Extrapolate
	Editing Object Pivot Points
	MetaBlobs
	Polygon Baking
	Selection by Wireframe
	Selection by object types
	Alignment Tool
	Twist Manipulation

	Baking Displacements
	Polygon Mesh Properties
	Using Master Objects
	Walk through selections
	Object Grouping
	Boolean Operations
	Drop and Smart Drop
	Scatter and Replicate

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

9.) Cameras, Navigation, and Rendering

Topics in this training lesson:

	Independent Viewport Navigation
	Slowing the Camera Controls
	Using the Camera Manager
	Deleting and Saving Camera
	Working with and Defining Render Areas

	Creating a MetaNode to accurately control camera focal length
	Saving and Loading MetaNodes
	Animation render options
	G-Buffer and Multi-Pass Overview
	Post Effects and Affects on Renders

Screen Shots from this training lesson:

Suggested Knowledge Level:

No previous knowledge of Vue required.

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.5 GHz +

Memory: 512 MB +

HD Space: 1 GB +

Any browser capable of running Flash Player 9+.

Navigation and menus are HTML.
Video files may be run with a media player.
(See Installation and Codecs for more information about the MP4 format)

Mozilla Firefox and Flash 10 are recommended but not required.

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