Tag Archives: Landscape

Derelict Hell

  By Moonwolf | May 3, 2011 - 1:02 am | Vue
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“No-one knows why the colonists decided to nose-dive their ship into the molten proto-planet beneath them, but speculation abounds. Sudden insanity on the part of the crew? A mutiny, perhaps? Bad sensor data is always a possibility, but was discounted immediately by the ship’s builders shortly before they filed for bankruptcy and executive protection. But the truth is, we may never know the cause of the catastrophe, why so many normal, rational people, gave up the will to live and ended it all in the fiery death that ended the last flight of the Star Ship ‘In Search Of Tia`ja’ … Continue reading →

Storm Tower

  By Moonwolf | November 21, 2010 - 11:32 pm | Vue
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This render originally started out as an exercise in doing stormy water effects with Vue.  The castle/fortress and lighthouse were added later to match an environment within a virtual world, and became the “signature” image for that region, which it very closely resembled. The lights on both buildings were created using the same techniques first tested with “Never pick up hitch-hikers“, tweaking volumetric and glow as needed. Image rendered in Vue.

Katrina/Winter's Isle

  By Moonwolf | March 2, 2010 - 8:28 am | Vue
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Eudemonia has a novel punishment for non-violent criminals – Banishment. Those who choose this way of shortening their sentences are shunned from society, encased in a second skin of flexible black rubber, sealed for the duration behind a steel helmet, all of it controlled by their Custodian – a neural AI connected directly into their very brains that monitors their every thought and punishes for the slightest infraction. The citizens call these outcasts Banes, their banesuit becomes their prison, their Custodian the Warden. Unable to communicate with the outside world, all senses muted, incapable of even feeling their surroundings, banes … Continue reading →

Grand Canyon .dem and .vue files

  By Moonwolf | February 24, 2009 - 1:01 pm | Free Stuff, Models
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Direct import into Vue 7 of the US Geological Survey DEM (Digital Elevation Model) data for the Grand Canyon (East and West). These files are a right pain in the nether regions to locate in .dem format, as the USGS website is nearly impossible to navigate sometimes. As USGS has released the data into the public domain, I decided to make these two .dem files available so people can find them easier. The zip file includes the public domain .dem files, as well as Vue 7 scenes. No textures are applied. DEM file release into public domain by USGS noted … Continue reading →

Stonehenge

  By Moonwolf | February 24, 2009 - 11:28 am | Free Stuff, Vue
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One of the most famous mysteries of ancient Britain comes to vivid life in these seven 3D images of Stonehenge rendered in Vue. 4000×2500 widescreen aspect renders in .jpg format.

Infinates

  By Moonwolf | February 16, 2009 - 4:15 pm | Animations
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My long-suffering yet eternally-patient 3D mentor, Mark, keeps pushing me to poke more at animations, so I did another test to get some idea of how Vue handles rendering animations and how jerky its responses to camera moves can get. The test anim concept is really simple – an infinite terrain, with an animated god-rays atmosphere, 1% distance blur on in Final quality mode.  It took a day to render on a single box, but it came out pretty well. Don’t forget to check out Mark’s Honorverse anims.

Mountain Storms

  By Moonwolf | January 2, 2009 - 9:29 pm | Free Stuff, Vue
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Stunning views from the side of mountains at blue skies marred only by ominous storm clouds gathering above highlights this landscape pack. Six 3200×2000 rendered background images of mountain terrain with storm clouds in the sky, created using Vue.

Phantasmal Moon 4

  By Moonwolf | December 30, 2008 - 11:46 pm | Free Stuff, Vue
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The full moon above casts an eerie shine over the water in this widescreen-rendered shoreline landscape image, reflecting off the placid waters and casting dark ominous shadows in the forest above the beach-line. 3200×2000 .png format 3D rendered landscape image created using Vue

Phantasmal Moon 2

  By Moonwolf | December 30, 2008 - 3:03 pm | Free Stuff, Vue
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The full moon above casts an eerie shine over the water in this widescreen-rendered shoreline landscape image, reflecting off the placid waters and casting dark ominous shadows in the forest above the beach-line. 3200×2000 .png format 3D rendered landscape image created using Vue.

View From A Mound

  By Moonwolf | October 13, 2008 - 11:11 am | Free Stuff, Vue
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Another moonlit-island landscape render, this time looking down across the bay from on top of a rocky hilltop facing towards the moon bright in the clouded sky. 1600×1200 .jpg format 3D rendered image, created using Vue.