Training

Are you interested in increasing your familiarity with Vue?

Get up and running fast with the Vue 10 Crash Course from asileFX. Over 6 hours of training and technical insight from Vue master, Nicholas Pellegrino.

Explore techniques for terrain design, EcoSystem Generation, plant customization, atmospherics, and scene creation workflow.
Learn about UI: commands, workflow, panels, editors; EcoSystem: Layers, Painting, and Population; Object: Mesh Options, Transformations, Species, and Generators; Camera: Navigation, Advanced Features, and Management; Vue Units and Natural Element Scale; Terrain: object types, editors, painting, and sculpting; Customizing and Rendering Vegetation; Procedural Terrain Functions: design techniques, editing, rocky mountain fractals, terrain fractals, and graph dependent materials; Material; editing, layering, painting, and mixing; Atmospheric: lighting customization, cloud layers, and the atmosphere editor; Scene Creation: workflow, file size management, structure, and more...

Compatible training for Vue 10 xStream, Infinite, Complete, Studio, and Esprit. Includes examples scene files and content for Vue 10 and higher.

Run Time: approx. 6h

Carbon Scatter Essentials and Advanced Techniques includes 11 training lessons to help you get the grips with Carbon Scatter in approximately 6 and a half hours!

Learn to control Carbon Scatter's material editor, material types, painter, and the function editor.
Learn to colorize instances, change CS plant shaders, and optimize multi-pass outputs like depth, object buffers, and motion vector.
Learn to control advanced functions using native objects from your scenes to manipulate EcoSystem placement and density.
Setup advanced lighting to control ecosystem environments separately from the rest of the scene.
Create LOD ecosystem layers controlled by object positions in the scene.
Learn optimization techniques to improve population speed and system response.
Create dummy population objects to replace memory hungry geometry, by rendering altitude and slope texture maps of your scenes.
Create a metanode function to decay ecosystems near objects in the scene.
Plus many more techniques...

This training was produced with Carbon Scatter for Cinema 4D. Most of the techniques shown in this video will apply to other host applications, but could require alternative setups specific to your application of choice.

Run Time: approx. 6.5h

Learn to create complex procedural terrain functions, create a highly detailed rocky landscape, and design custom rock materials.

this training covers 3 main aspects: Rocky Landscapes, Rock Materials and Layered Strata Materials

Training for Vue 9 & Vue 9.5 Infinite, xStream, and Complete - Vue Studio and Espirit users will require the "Advanced Graph" module. (Available from Cornucopia3D.com).

Training produced with Vue 9.5 xStream - standalone. Included Vue scene files require Vue 9 and higher to load. Includes all project scenes from the training, plus more than a dozen bonus scenes. (Vue 9 or higher required).

Run Time: approx. 4h

Plant Design & EcoSystem Functions includes nearly 6 hours of training for Vue Infinite/xStream and Photoshop, instructed by Nicholas Pellegrino from asileFX. In this training you will learn to: customize Vue plant species, create custom texture maps in photoshop, and design ecosystem functions in vue, and a lot more...

Training produced with Vue 9.5 xStream (standalone) and Photoshop CS4 Extended. Alternate numeric entries are given to Vue users with Vue 8.5 and under throughout the training, in order to match the settings of Vue 9+. Included Vue scene files will require Vue 9 and higher to load.

Run Time: approx. 6h!

Getting Started with Vue 9 Vol.2 - Lighting & Atmospherics is a project based introduction to Vue 9 Infinite / xStream.

With this training material learn to customize atmospheres to fit your creative and design needs. Learn to modify and create your own custom atmospheres and infinite terrains. Explore the relations between infinite terrains, sea level, and atmospherics. Learn to create an improved "Randomization Seed" node and add more variations to infinite terrain functions. Learn about volumetric lighting and shadow control. Create lighting setups and reduce render times with "relighting." Understand clouds layers and how to control them. Learn about atmospheric density in relation to scene units and spherical scenes. Break apart vectors, limit node outputs, create custom vectors, publish parameters from the function editor into the terrain editor. Create and control numerous atmospheres, edit functions, create MetaNodes, reduce render times, and more...

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Run Time: approx. 3h!

Getting Started with Vue 9 - Forest Creation is a project based introduction to Vue 9 Infinite / xStream. No previous knowledge of Vue required.

Run Time: 4h 05m!

Getting started with Vue 9 covers topics such as:

With this training material you will understand how to design and animate EcoSystems using advanced functions and graphs, learn to create real-world forest-growth along with precisely controlled distributions, discover how you can manage your scenes more efficiently and setup LOD ecosystem zones, optimize file sizes and system resources with LOD (level of detail zones), learn how to drastically reduce render times and system memory usage by learning to create pseudo vegetation with low-res SolidGrowth objects, and a lot more!

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In this training, you will lean how to create complex procedural functions for generating science fiction style cities using procedural terrains & materials. Learn to modify altitude productions and create single building generators. Optimize scenes and dramatically reduce render times with several baking techniques. Explore scene lighting techniques and material controlled lights.

Users of Vue 7 and higher will also learn to create helpful MetaNodes and dependent function controllers. Nearly 8 hours of training, plus, all project scene files included. (Vue 8.4 or higher required for scene files and MetaNodes.)

NOTE: These techniques are suitable for Vue xStream / Infinite version 5, 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5 and up. Alternate methods are shown for incompatible and/or versions prior to v8.5 throughout the training. Some key features may not be available for Vue version 5 and 6 users.

Amazing Plant Creation Techniques covers topics such as:

In over 8 hours of training, AsileFX will show you how to improve your sculpting workflow & techniques as well as fascinating terrain creation techniques for Vue 8 and higher.

In this training material, AsileFX covers topics such as:

NOTE: This training material also includes dozens of scene files, a companion reference guide (including additional techniques and technical references), filters, textures, tools, and more!
The Terrain Workshop Reference guide is provided in PDF and HTML formats with the option to display directly in the html training menu.

In this training, learn everything about atmospheric lighting and cloud creation in Vue Infinite and xStream.

In this training material, AsileFX covers topics such as:

NOTE: This training can be used with Vue versions 7 and up, and also with Ozone 4.

With this training material, you will:

Get optimal productivity when using dynamic EcoSystem population (also extremely useful for standard EcoSystem population ).

Learn scene setup techniques to improve system response and performances.

Learn how to use pre-viz plants and vegetation planning to speed up your scene creation process, and provide nearly instant previewing.

Learn a powerful technique to drastically increase render speeds by converting procedural terrains into a standard terrains. And so much more...

This training also includes 32 vegetation species variations!

Increase the power of Vue 7 with over 90 MetaNode tools and enhancements!

SnowFlake includes some very powerful tools for Vue 7, including: Advanced Sphere Zone, Camera Orbiter, Camera Master Controller, Dynamic Range Controller, 11 Terrain / Fractal or Noise Filters, Fractal / Terrain Mixer, Function Preview Scalar, Matte Painter and Matte Painter - 2Layer, Vector Lock - Vector Lock 3x3, and many more...

This is a veritable treasure trove of tools to augment your Vue creations!

Download the Full Reference Manual here!

Advanced Production Techniques for Vue 7 xStream and Vue 7 Infinite:

Learn to dynamically control and animate any extractable function operation in Vue 7 Infinite and xStream.

Learn how complex MetaNodes work and how to create them.

Then learn to use the node in a scene, and create a complex animation with a procedural terrain, and its mixed material.

This training contains several projects designed to teach you how to use Vue efficiently, and covers features in typical usage scenarios!

Run Time: 6h 46m!

Getting started with Vue 8 covers topics such as:

Upgrading to Vue 8 Infinite / xStream? Interested in learning useful techniques and workflow operations using the new features in Vue 8?
Get up and running fast with What's New in Vue 8 & 7.5 Infinite xStream from asileFX.

With this title you will explore the new features and workflow changes of Vue 8 and 7.5 Infinite / xStream:

NOTE: This training material also includes techniques and information about the new features introduced to Vue in version 7.5!

(Perfect for current Vue users migrating to version 8, or users with a background in 3D).

In this training you will learn a variety of project techniques, useful shortcuts, MetaNode creation, and powerful feature enhancement techniques for Vue versions 7 and up. This training includes project scenes, color maps, materials, objects, and tools.

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NOTE:This training can be used with Vue version 7, 7.5, 8, & 8.5.
Vue version 8.4 or higher is required to open the included content. Although this training was produced in Vue 8.5, users with Vue version 7 or higher will have no trouble following along.

With this training material you will learn the ins and outs of Vue xStream scene creation in LightWave 3D 9.

Learn techniques, creation workflow, time savers, solutions, general integration, and the technical aspects that power the xStream plug-in.

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NOTE:This training can be used with Vue xStream version 7, 7.5, 8, & 8.5.

Learn how to perfectly integrate Vue xStream in C4D!

With this title you will be introduced to all the great new features Vue 7 offers, such as:

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New to Vue 6 Infinite or need a refresher course, Getting Started with Vue 6 Infinite is what you need!

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An in-depth introduction to Vue 6's main features.

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Explore Vue 6´s powerful Spectral Atmosphere Editor!

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This tutorial will show you how you can use Vue, together with your prefered image editing application, to create custom SolidGrowth plants and trees.

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Time to take your Vue vegetation files to the next level!

With this 6 hours long training material you will:

With Advanced Ecosystem Creation, learn everything you need to know about working with both Global and Material based EcoSystems in Vue 6 Infnite/XStream.

In addition to the main tutorial, the training material contains an extra 2 hours of un-narrated EcoSystem scene creation.

Explore Vue 6´s powerful Terrain Editor, standard and Procedural!

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With Advanced Material Creation, you'll learn how to use every setting and every tool in the Material Editor:

from the creation of functions to control color/bump/transparency..., to using layers and environmental settings to create ultrarealistic materials, or even which is the best material mapping mode to use for each different situation.

Plus a lot more too...

(Should be familiar with the basic features of Vue 6).

With Advanced Effects - Fire, you'll learn:

With Basics of the Function Editor, you will:

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(For newcomers. Learn the fundamentals of how to use Vue 5).

Learn the advanced features of Vue 5 Infinite.

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Learn the advanced features of Vue 5 Infinite.

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Learn the advanced features of Vue 5 Infinite.

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Think you know everything about Vue 5 Infinite?

Well, here's a little more for you!

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Think you know everything about Vue 5 Infinite?

Well, here's a little more for you!

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Think you know everything about Vue 5 Infinite?

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Learn how to use these two amazing programs together and take advantage of their incredible abilities!

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