If you want to save yourself some major headaches I recommend keeping your hands off of Vue and related products (e.g. Ozone, Carbon Scatter).
I and others I know have given it a shot in the past repeatedly and every single time were turned off by poor stability.
I've heard better things of Terragen, but I admit I have never used it.
Thanks Nick and Jordi,I will check out scatter tools now.Jordi I agree completely with what you say, and at One Animation I usually only get about 1 to 2 weeks to develop anything. So I am very willing to try an out of box solution.I started playing with Vue Extreme today, it seems pretty powerful, but wow its not enjoyable at all to use, I will keep experimenting with it until i understand it better.I will also try world builder now thanks to your recommendation.-EOn Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com> wrote:
Very impressive tools.. :-) Sill amazed by what people produce with ICE
Jordi BaresOn 1 Feb 2014, at 11:58, Nick Angus <n...@altvfx.com> wrote:Milan Vasek’s Scatter Tools are my best friend when it comes to this sort of stuff. https://vimeo.com/36612233He has created some pretty astounding imagery with them also http://www.milanvasek.com/?p=355More advanced stuff that uses libraries of assets would have been used by the folks at Whiskytree, Steve Caron might be able to elaborate.But if you combine Scatter tools with Arnold instancing you pretty much have the best solution out of the box in my opinion.Cheers, NickFrom: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Enrique Caballero
Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2014 3:50 PM
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Subject: Set Dressing Tool IdeasHey everyone,I was hoping to pick your brains.
I am currently doing some research on how to simplify, and make cheaper our set dressing process over at this small shop that I work at.In the old days, when we did small simple shows, set dressing wasn't very difficult for us as there were limited amounts of props and environment pieces. We would just import referenced models and place them by hand/But now that we do full forests and large amounts of rocks and plant life, we need to upgrade our techniques. As our original techniques are no longer sufficient.I am looking at how ICE can help us with the initial set dressing. Maybe by painting weight maps we can spawn different types of mushrooms and trees etc.I am currently experimenting with Dart Throw, and it looks very promising. Thanks Julian!Although I need to figure out how to get it to switch between different geo types, IE. Trees, mushrooms, etc. Currently I can only get it to spawn one geo type at a time.I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how we could simplify this stuff, as I said before, currently I am looking at Dart throw and ABScatter to see if they can help us out, but I am open minded. Has anyone tried Vue Studio or anything similar that they can recommend?best,Enrique
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