Advanced Digital Nature Application for 3D Artists
Vue 10 Studio is the advanced Digital Nature application with powerful vegetation and rendering features for dedicated 3D Artists. Focused on enhanced natural vegetation capabilities, advanced rendering features and extended Poser/Daz integration, Vue 10 Studio provides comprehensive control over the creation of complex scenes, while maintaining an intuitive workflow.
Vue 10 Studio adds to Vue 10 Esprit the technologies available in the Botanica, LightTune, DeepAccess, HyperVue and EcoSystem expansion modules.
10 Reasons to use Vue 10 Studio
- Easy to learn, easy to use!
- Extended scenery power!
- Advanced EcoSystems!
- Create your own plant species!
- Photo-realistic radiosity lighting!
- Load and render Poser characters!
- Unrivaled natural 3D creation power!
- Packed full of preset content!
- High quality, high resolution images!
- Blazing fast network rendering!
- Direct access to Cornucopia3D content!
What's in the Box?
Vue 10 Studio adds the EcoSystem, Botanica, LightTune, DeepAccess and HyperVue modules to Vue Esprit.
Vue 10 Studio ships with an extensive collection of preset trees, buildings, scenes, characters, etc.
Thanks to the EcoSystem module included in Vue 10 Studio, you can create and edit your own EcoSystem materials. Control the size, color, orientation, placement, density, etc. of your EcoSystem populations. Create layered EcoSystems and adjust the affinity between the different layer populations.
With the Botanica Plant Editor, Vue 10 Studio lets you customize the included SolidGrowth plants to create your own, unique plant species. Adjust the settings for the entire plant, or work on individual subsets (trunk, branches leaves...). Save your newly created species to create slightly different plants each time.
With LightTune, pump up your lighting effects with advanced features such as detailed per-object light influence, AccuShadows™ shadow mapping, spotlight view-through and custom attenuation graphs.
Fully control even the most complex scenes thanks to DeepAccess. Add an unlimited number of layers. Link and incorporate imported objects and maps with dynamic updates. Sort objects by size, type or name. Easily manage and modify multiple object instances.
With HyperVue, dramatically cut down render times by distributing your render jobs accross a network of up to 5 computers (Macintosh or Windows). Easily set up and manage the render network with the included SmartCow™ and NewCow™ technologies.
The RenderUp module, included with Vue 10 Studio, lets you render images without any limitation of size nor quality (other than system resources). It also grants you advanced control over the Vue rendering engine.
The 3DImport module, also part of Vue 10 Studio, lets you import content created with other 3D applications. Thanks to 3DImport, Vue 10 Studio can read and import 3D objects in all popular formats, complete with texturing information.
This includes the ability to natively load static or animated Poser characters, re-pose them directly inside of Vue, and even render them using the Poser shading tree!
The content included with Vue 10 Studio features over 190 3D objects (of which 18 animals, 28 buildings, 5 characters, 21 vehicles, etc) as well as over 50 additional plant species and 10 new sets.
Minimum System Requirements
Vue is a 32 & 64 bits application, designed for the Windows® 32/64 bits XP, Vista and Windows 7 and Intel Mac OS X platforms.
Like all 3D packages, it is highly demanding in terms of computer power. Although the application is totally multi-threaded to ensure the smoothest possible response, you have to realize that there is a lot going on when you work in Vue.
Please note that using Vue on a system carrying the below specification may result in slow response time and longer render times!
Please read further on for recommended minimal specification for an optimal Vue experience.
Macintosh
- Mac OS X v10.5+ 32/64,
- 2GHz Intel processor or faster,
- 1GB of free RAM,
- 200 MB of free Hard Disk space,
- 1200x768 in 65K colors/16 bits (24+ bits recommended).
Windows
- Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 32/64,
- 2GHz Pentium IV or better processor,
- 1GB of free RAM,
- 200 MB of free Hard Disk space,
- 1200x768 in 65K colors/16 bits (24+ bits recommended).
Note: Vue 10 Studio installed on a multi-core CPU computer will use a maximum of respectively 4/8 CPUs on 32/64 bit OS.
Recommended System Specs
- Windows 64 bit (XP, Vista or Windows 7), Mac OS X v10.6
- Multi-core CPU (Intel QuadCore, Core I7, or Mac Pro),
- 4GB+ of RAM,
- 4GB+ of free Hard Disk space (on the drive hosting the OS),
- An OpenGL accelerated video board (see below for optimal compatibility)
Native Cocoa
Starting from version 9, Vue for the Macintosh platform was rewritten from the ground up to reap maximum benefits of Apple's latest Mac OS X operating systems.
Vue will run natively on the Mac in 64 bit. On top of the added benefit of accessing more memory, performance is also dramatically improved with anoverall boost of up to 3 times faster over previous Carbon 32 versions!
Supported Video Boards
Vue 10 Studio now includes an automatic configuration tool that will set all OpenGL options just after install, for optimized previewing on your video board / driver.
The following boards/chips will perform using the new Shader engine:
| Brand | Model | Required Driver Version  | Supported OS | Limitations |
| nVidia | geforce 8800GT | ForceWare 190.38 + (3) | | Windows only |
| nVidia | geforce 9800GT | ForceWare 190.38 + (3) |  | Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac |
| nVidia | GTX 260 -> 280 | ForceWare 190.38 + (3) | | Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac |
| nVidia | GTX 460 -> 480 | ForceWare 190.38 + (3) | | Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac |
| nVidia | GTX 500 Series | ForceWare 190.38 + (3) | | Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac |
| nVidia | Quadro FX 1800 -> 5800 | ForceWare 190.38 + (3) | | Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac |
| nVidia | Quadro 4000 -> 6000 | ForceWare 190.38 + (3) | | Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac |
| nVidia | Quadro 600 & 2000 (GF100 based) | Any | | Windows only |
| ATI | Radeon HD 26xx | Any | | Mac only |
| ATI | Radeon 48xx | Catalyst 9-3, 9-4, 9-5 & 10.12 (1) | | Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac |
| ATI | Radeon (HD) 5700 -> 58xx | Catalyst 9.12 + | | May display some minor glitches, Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac (2) |
| ATI | Radeon 6000 Series | Any | | May display some minor glitches, Shaded Billboards not supported on Mac (2) |
| ATI | FirePro V8700 | Catalyst 9-3, 9-4 & 9-5 | | Windows only |
| ATI | FirePro V4800/5800/7800/8800 | Any | | Windows only. May display some minor glitches (2) |
(1) Requires a Vue 9 build superior to 9005724. Resizing editors, or really heavy scenes may generate some instability.
(2) Support for Shaded Billboards on Windows requires a Vue 9 build superior to 9005724.
(3) Warning! Do not install Nvidia Drivers 270.61. These drivers weren't certified with Vue and may present severe OpenGL issues!
Other boards (such as the nVidia GeForce 210/220/240, 300 and 300M series, 6000 and 7000 series...) may not perform using the Shader engine, but will perform using the older fixed-pipeline one.
Older boards such as Voodoo, Rage Pro, Radeon 8000 up until Geforce FX chips included, all Intel video boards, and all unrecognized boards will run in software OpenGL mode only.
Due to recent changes in the Mac OS 10.6 OpenGL implementation, which resulted in a massive slowdown of OpenGL intensive applications, Shaded Billboards are not supported at all on Mac.
In any case, Vue can perform in
software OpenGL regardless of the video board.
Boards that are not on this list may work with Vue, but haven't been extensively tested. If you run into any OpenGL issues, try disabling background draw and antialiasing in the Options panel. Worst case scenario: you can always run Vue in software OpenGL mode.
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| Warning: Laptops using Nvidia's Optimus or ATI's BinaryGFX technologies may present severe OpenGl problems. We recommend that users deactivate this option when running Vue! | |
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Chips we do not recommend:
Windows:
- All ATI Radeon prior to 4000 series.
- ATI 9000 series, X series, and HD series might work, but with fewer options, and you may experience severe slowdowns.
- ATI FireGL 5000 series.
Macintosh:
- Intel-based GPUs and nVidia 7300 board will not work with Vue (with hw acceleration).
Poser™ SDKs
There are four Poser™ SDKs that you can choose from:
- Poser SDK from February 2010 (default): This one worked fine in earlier builds of Vue 8. However, this SDK does not support Poser Pro, may introduce rendering artefacts when using the Poser Shader Tree, and Dynamic Clothes may have some issues. Some content may not load properly with this SDK.
- Poser SDK from March 2010: This one fixes the greenish skin tones of Poser figure imports (also known as the Hulk Syndrome). Some content may not load properly with this SDK.
- Poser SDK from May 2010: This one adds support of Poser Pro and fixes many of the clothing problems. Some content may not load properly with this SDK.
- Poser SDK from August 2011: This SDK adds support of Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012. This SDK used on Mac will only work in 64 bit. It will work in both 32 and 64 bit on Windows.
You might need to experiment with these to find out which one works best for you.
