Vue Infinite/Xstream 8.0
Byeka
Name changed from Freak83Toronto Join Date: 2003-03-13 Member: 14484Members, Constellation
Name changed from Freak83Toronto Join Date: 2003-03-13 Member: 14484Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">Where to start...</div>Hey all, hope I'm posting this in the right place. It's been a while since I've posted anything on these boards.
The other day I discovered a 3D design program called Vue Infinite/Xstream. I learned about it when investigating how THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up5jmbSjWkw) video was created. Needless to say I was stunned! I made a note to check out the program and I soon realized you could download full trial versions from the company's website. I downloaded, installed, and followed some basic tutorials on their website to make
My first image:
<img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/Freak83/Vue/Sample.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
I then followed an online tutorial on Youtube to make a weird looking UFO:
<img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/Freak83/Vue/aliencraft.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Here's where my problem is. I have no experience with 3D graphic design, and am at best, a bit better with computers than an average user. The most complicated program I know how to use decently is Adobe Premier for video editing. I'm finding this graphic design stuff VERY cool and would love to be able to do more with it but... without some quality tutorials or an instructor I feel my ability to learn about this as a beginner will be very limited.
I have two questions.
1) Does anyone here know a lot about Vue and can provide me with some assistance or guide me towards some quality tutorials.
2) The images my view seems to be producing are pretty grainy at best. Here's the link to the UFO tutorial and you can see how much better his turned out. (it shows his right at about 10 seconds in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsyMQn8Xho)" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsyMQn8Xho)</a>. I don't think my pics are grainy because of the trial version, but rather some type of settings. Any idea how to fix that?
3) What kind of computer is actually recommended for this type of work? I'm running Windows Vista with a 32 bit system. My machine is pretty high end for everything I've needed it for to date (high end gaming, I can run pretty much all settings on high as well as video editing). But I'm thinking for this line of work my computer may just not cut it.
Processor: Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 4094MB RAM
I look forward to hearing what you guys have to say :)
The other day I discovered a 3D design program called Vue Infinite/Xstream. I learned about it when investigating how THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up5jmbSjWkw) video was created. Needless to say I was stunned! I made a note to check out the program and I soon realized you could download full trial versions from the company's website. I downloaded, installed, and followed some basic tutorials on their website to make
My first image:
<img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/Freak83/Vue/Sample.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
I then followed an online tutorial on Youtube to make a weird looking UFO:
<img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/Freak83/Vue/aliencraft.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Here's where my problem is. I have no experience with 3D graphic design, and am at best, a bit better with computers than an average user. The most complicated program I know how to use decently is Adobe Premier for video editing. I'm finding this graphic design stuff VERY cool and would love to be able to do more with it but... without some quality tutorials or an instructor I feel my ability to learn about this as a beginner will be very limited.
I have two questions.
1) Does anyone here know a lot about Vue and can provide me with some assistance or guide me towards some quality tutorials.
2) The images my view seems to be producing are pretty grainy at best. Here's the link to the UFO tutorial and you can see how much better his turned out. (it shows his right at about 10 seconds in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsyMQn8Xho)" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsyMQn8Xho)</a>. I don't think my pics are grainy because of the trial version, but rather some type of settings. Any idea how to fix that?
3) What kind of computer is actually recommended for this type of work? I'm running Windows Vista with a 32 bit system. My machine is pretty high end for everything I've needed it for to date (high end gaming, I can run pretty much all settings on high as well as video editing). But I'm thinking for this line of work my computer may just not cut it.
Processor: Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 4094MB RAM
I look forward to hearing what you guys have to say :)
Comments
1) Nope.
2) It seems like some sort of reflection resolution thing. I'm not sure how it's rendering this stuff but you might want to bump up the number of rays it casts if it's raytracing or look for a shadow resolution setting or something like that.
3) It doesn't really matter how fast your computer is as long as you can work reasonably easily in the program, because you can always render overnight.