2011
Thomas Nacho
10:47:14
English
Chapter 01 - Introduction
Vue xStream 8. Interface and workflow. Landscape Animation. Basic interface. Vue Workflow. Intro to Vue Objects. Terrains. Types. Heightfield, procedural, infinite terrains. Editing Terrains. Intro to 3D. Sculpting tools. Zones. Vue 8 Terrain editor, painting mixed materials. Plants and Metaclouds intro. Atmosphere Basics. Creating a quick environment in 15 minutes. Intro to Ecosystem. Dynamic population. Animation Wizard. Intro to render Qualities.
Chapters 02-05 - Winter Scene Animation (Part 1-4)
Done with Vue 7.5. Rocks. Using displacement with rocks. Layering vs mixing materials. Displacement with mixed and multilayer materials. Basic function editor management. Filters. Plants. From plant species. Editing their materials. Vue 7 Terrain editor. Populating ecosystems. Affinity & Repulsion. Introduction to atmosphere & clouds. Metaclouds. Basic animation. Water surface, camera movement, breeze. Animation rendering. Antialiasing, render quality.
Chapters 06-08 - Landscape Animation (Part 1-3)
Using imported meshes as terrains. UVs. Mask painting in Z-Brush. Using material layers and mixing materials. Function editing. Alpha and transparency. Ecosystems. Multiple ecosystems vs one single ecosystem. Density maps. Atmpspherics: Haze, Fog, Sky, Aereal perspective, Breeze. Clouds. Spectral clouds, metaclouds. Simple animation. Clouds, camera, vegetation. Animation rendering.
Chapters 09-11 - Concept and Fake Animation (Part 1-3)
Terrain Editor. Using Custom Maps to generate Terrains. Mixing bitmaps and procedural textures in terrains. Combiner, Blender Nodes. Terrain Clipping. Brushes in Terrain Edition. Brush Modes. Airbrush Style. Ecosystem population. Rocks. Affinity. Layering multiple Ecosystems. Material Layering. Individual Plants and Ecosystem Plant distribution. Object Layers. Rendering Multipass Buffer. Render Resolutions. Faking animation with Nuke.
Chapters 12-13 - Night Scene Animation (Part 1-2)
Importing Max objects into vue. Obj. UVs. System Units.- Materials: Using normal maps in Vue. Reflection in materials. Using layered materials with rendered textures. Adding Dirt with procedural texures. Quadratic lights. Using reference meshes for terrain creation. Vue 8 terrain editor. Sculpting, Zones. Airbrush in Vue 8. Subdivision in Terrains. Animating a camera. Animation Curves. Ecosystem painting.
Chapters 14-15 - Mountain Path Animation (Part 1-2)
Imported meshes. Normal mapping. UVs troubles. Polygon mesh options. Dynamic subdivisions. Decimation. Displacement. Problems with non-procedural meshes. Bump, normal bump and displacement. Assigning textures. Input nodes. Hypertexture materials. Night atmosphere. GI faking. Light influences. Improving Clouds. Spectral clouds and Light interaction. Bringing a camera animation from max. Animation rendering. Multiframe antialiasing.
Chapter 16 - Simple Environment
Using Primitive Objects. Scatter and Replicate. Metablob objects. Options. Material Editor. Influence of Environment in Mixed Materials. Blender and combiner Nodes. Combination Modes. Ecosystems. Rocks. Assigning Procedural materials to rocks. Paint Ecosystem vs. Material Ecosystem. Infinite terrains, seas. Using Imported meshes. Sea Foam not working with foreign objects. Atmospheres.
Chapters 17-18 - Vue in 3ds Max (Mental Ray) Theory (Part 1-2)
Vue inside Max. Interface. Workflow. Customize Interface. Scene Contents. Mental Ray Final Gather and Vue Atmosphere. Vue Global Radiosity in Max. Vue Lights Vs. Max Lights. Shadowing. Max lights and area shadows. Materials: Max materials for Max objects, Vue Materials for Vue objects. Copying Vue objects in the scene. Mr Sun, Mr Sky. Troubleshooting. Ecosystems inside Max. Antialiasing. Vue or Max. Terrain editor. Adapting vue environment to Max scene.
Chapters 19-20 - Vue in 3ds Max (Mental Ray) House Animation (Part 1-2)
Creating a Terrain. Adapting the Terrain to the Max scene. Terrain Editor. Sculpting. Camera management. Changing Lenses. Camera correction Mod. Atmosphere. Lightning model. Managing sunlight. Night atmosphere. GI faking. Creating a Planet. Global Lightning Adjustments. Light properties. Softness in Vue Lights. No soft shadows with Max lights. Animation rendering. Multiframe antialiasing. Painting Ecosystems in Max. Camera animation. Exporting animation to Vus Scene.

Chapters
01. Introduction
02. Winter Scene Animation (Part 1)
03. Winter Scene Animation (Part 2)
04. Winter Scene Animation (Part 3)
05. Winter Scene Animation (Part 4)
06. Landscape Animation (Part 1)
07. Landscape Animation (Part 2)
08. Landscape Animation (Part 3)
09. Concept and Fake Animation (Part 1)
10. Concept and Fake Animation (Part 2)
11. Concept and Fake Animation (Part 3)
12. Night Scene Animation (Part 1)
13. Night Scene Animation (Part 2)
14. Mountain Path Animation (Part 1)
15. Mountain Path Animation (Part 2)
16. Simple Environment
17. Vue in 3ds Max (Mental Ray) Theory (Part 1)
18. Vue in 3ds Max (Mental Ray) Theory (Part 2)
19. Vue in 3ds Max (Mental Ray) House Animation (Part 1)
20. Vue in 3ds Max (Mental Ray) House Animation (Part 2)

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