Thanks everyone, I tried Vue for a few hours, it was impressive, but decided not to go with it, due to stability issues and user friendliness. Plus I rather not go to my boss and ask him for 2k for the program.
I don't think the actual foliage scattering is that hard to replicate with ICE. For now i have gone with a combination of Dart Throw and Scatter tools to give me most of the control that I need. Actually its pretty nice so far With some minor adjustments and some scripting to make the process easier I think its actually a pretty decent system to get us some quick set dressing of forests and bushes etc... On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Eugen Sares <[email protected]> wrote: > Ozone... good for generating some HDR skies, but the connection plugin > for Soft is crappy. Can crash on load or save, is modal... handle with > care, if at all. > > > ------ Originalnachricht ------ > Von: "Stefan Kubicek" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Gesendet: 03.02.2014 12:55:56 > Betreff: Re: Set Dressing Tool Ideas > > > 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. > > -E > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Jordi Bares <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Very impressive tools.. :-) Sill amazed by what people produce with ICE >> >> Jordi Bares >> [email protected] >> >> On 1 Feb 2014, at 11:58, Nick Angus <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Milan Vasek's Scatter Tools are my best friend when it comes to this >> sort of stuff. https://vimeo.com/36612233 >> He has created some pretty astounding imagery with them also >> http://www.milanvasek.com/?p=355 >> >> More 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, Nick >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:softimage- >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Enrique Caballero >> *Sent:* Saturday, 1 February 2014 3:50 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Set Dressing Tool Ideas >> >> Hey 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 >> >> >> > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Stefan Kubicek > ------------------------------------------- > keyvis digital imagery > Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 > A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien > Phone: +43/699/12614231 > www.keyvis.at [email protected] > -- This email and its attachments are -- > --confidential and for the recipient only-- > > > > ------------------------------ > <http://www.avast.com/> > > Diese E-Mail ist frei von Viren und Malware, denn der avast! > Antivirus<http://www.avast.com/>Schutz ist aktiv. > >
