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Making a Searchlight in Vue
Too many Ideas | September 24th 2008
Vue doesn’t have a parallel light source that creates a fixed width beam so making search lights and other lights with parallel edges requires a little work. Here is one way I’ve used, it may not work for all situations but it works for some. read more
Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting- Part 3
Too many Ideas | April 21st 2008
Last week in part 2 of Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting - Part 2 I covered two variations on a three point lighting rigs. Tonight I'll cover another of the variations. Again the key light is at 30 degrees to the horizontal and 45 degree read more
Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting- Part 2
Too many Ideas | April 14th 2008
Back in part 1 of Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting I said I'd work through renders from some of these different rigs. Tonight I'll cover two of the variations. Both of them place the key light at 30 degrees to the horizontal and 45 degr read more
Moments of Inspiration and Vue
Too many Ideas | April 9th 2008
I've been playing with the trial version of Moments of Inspiration (MoI) a handy 3d modelling package which has a striking resemblance to Rhino. Thats unsurprising since it was created by the original develoer of Rhino. Fortunately MoI is abou read more
Dizzy!!!
Too many Ideas | April 7th 2008
Dizzy, I'm so Dizzy, my head is spinning Like a whirlpool, it never ends And it's Vue [girl], making it spin you're making me dizzy Yeah! After several frought attempts I've finally cracked getting rotation from a Vue scene into pyODE. The libr read more
And which way round is right...
Too many Ideas | March 28th 2008
So my ongoing experimentation with pyODE is making some progress. I can now get data rotation data out of pyODE into Vue 6 Infinite to change the objects angles. I found some code to turn pyODE's 3x3 matrix in to a Euler angle. Once in a while i read more
Vue Lighting Rig #16: Three Point Lighting
Too many Ideas | March 17th 2008
I’ve covered a selection of theatrical lighting rigs already that use three lights. I was sent an e-mail asking if I’d show a definitive version of the classic three point lighting rig used for film, television, photography and computer graphic read more
Mass Preview Colour Change Script
Too many Ideas | March 2nd 2008
A quick python script for Vue 6 Infinite for a request at Renderosity to change all the preview colours of selected objects in one go. Download: masssetpreviewcolor.zip (3KB) read more
Vue Lighting Rig #14: Another Four Light Rig
Too many Ideas | January 21st 2008
This weeks follows on from last weeks four light rig. This week the lights are again at ninety degrees to each other. The lights have been rotated so we now have a light pointing straight in from the front, one from behind and one from each side. read more
Vue Lighting Rig #13: A Four Light Rig
Too many Ideas | January 14th 2008
With improved power supplies, lighting desks that can control more lights in larger theatres it has become possible to use more lights to light an actor. This allows a lighting designer to go from the standard 3 light rig to four light rigs. This read more
Vue Lighting Rig #12: Modern Christmas Lights
Too many Ideas | December 17th 2007
This week's Vue Lighting Rig is less of a rig and more of a way of achieving a Christmas light effect. Looking at the Christmas lights in Liverpool I noticed several invisible Christmas trees. I'm sure these are popping up all over the country. read more
Vue Lighting Rig #11: The Godspot
Too many Ideas | December 10th 2007
I'm taking another short break from my ongoing progression through the common basic rigs used for lighting an actor to look at a few effects rigs that can be used for seasonal pictures. Tonights rig, the Godspot, can be used to evoke the presence o read more
Vue Lighting Rig #10: Three Spot Lights
Too many Ideas | December 3rd 2007
Last weeks entry in my ongoing series of theatrically inspired Vue lighting rigs is one of the most commonly used rigs: Two Spotlights from the Front. Tonight's rig is an improved version of that rig which adds a third light behind the actor to add read more
Vue Lighting Rig #9: Two Spotlights from the Front
Too many Ideas | November 26th 2007
Tonight's Theatrical lighting rigs is one of the most commonly used solutions to the question of how to light an actor. It has been in use for at least seventy-five years and was first described by Stanley McCandless in his 1932 book A Method of Lig read more
Vue Lighting Rig #8: Spotlights at 45 degrees from the Front and…
Too many Ideas | November 19th 2007
Last weeks theatrical lighting rig for Vue placed two spot lights at 45 degrees on either side of the actor but this can create unsightly shadows especially down the middle of their face. This week the same rig is turned so that one light now point read more
Wordless Wednesday
Too many Ideas | November 13th 2007
1. ONwebCHECK2. mar3. Mama Pajama4. jams o donnell5. And Miles To Go...6. ellen b7. Comedy Plus8. nap warden9. SandyCarlson10. CK Go Places11. Laurel Wreath12. Rose13. WorksForMom14. Serina15. Idaho Daily Photo16. Lori17. Mark's Regular Life18. we read more
Vue Lighting Rig #7: Two Spots 45 Degrees From the Side
Too many Ideas | November 12th 2007
Last week's theatrical lighting rig for Vue, Two Spots Slightly to the Side, placed two lights at steep angles to either side of the actor. This week's rig is very similar except the lights have moved out so they are now at roughly forty five degree read more
Vue Lighting Rig #6: Two Spots Slightly to the Side
Too many Ideas | November 5th 2007
This week I'm continuing my series of basic lighting rigs for e-on software's Vue inspired by theatrical lighting techniques. All the rigs so far have used a single light but this week's is the first to use two. With two lights there is now light read more
Vue Lighting Rig #4: Single Spot In Front
Too many Ideas | October 22nd 2007
This lighting rig is one I used a lot when I first did lighting for plays at school. We didn't have many lights and we had even fewer channels for controlling them on our lighting desk. A single spot light is aimed so it is pointing down from the f read more
Vue Lighting Rig #3: Single Spot Slightly Behind
Too many Ideas | October 15th 2007
This third of my lighting rigs for Vue following on from last Mondays Vue Lighting Rig #2. This week the point light has been moved behind so it shines on the figure including both the top of their head and the bottom of their feet. With a sin read more
Vue Lighting Rig #2: Single Spot Slightly to One Side
Too many Ideas | October 8th 2007
This second of my lighting rigs for Vue and another really snappy title following on from last weeks Vue Lighting Rig #1: Single Spot Overhead. This week the point light has been moved slightly to one side and angled so it shines on the figure incl read more
Vue Lighting Rig #1: Single Spot Overhead
Too many Ideas | October 1st 2007
A new and hopefully fairly regular feature for Too Many Ideas - lighting rig ideas for use with Vue. I'm going to kick off with a series of rigs inspired by theatrical lighting. Tonights rig is one of the simplest: a single spot light directly above read more
Vue Eco Vertical Scatter Python Script
Too many Ideas | September 5th 2007
LMcLean was looking for a way to vertically scatter instances in a Vue EcoSystem. I realised I could easily adapt the Vue EcoRotate Python Script I wrote a few weeks ago to do it. Here is a quick Vue python script to do this with a simple interface read more
Wordless Wednesday #22
Too many Ideas | September 4th 2007
Made using e-on software's Vue 6 Infinite, Chipp's TerraPack, some of Linda's fluffy clouds (from her Incredibly Lush Tropical Paradise) and a happy accidental slip with the mouse that turned an interesting hill into a dramatic cliff. read more
Vue EcoRotate Python Script
Too many Ideas | August 25th 2007
There was a question on Cornucopia 3D's vue python forum about setting all the objects / instances in an EcoSystem to point in a direction possibly with a bit of variation. So here is a quick python script for vue to do just that... Download: Eco read more
Have the recent Haiti videos damaged UFO videos as evidence?
My Paranormal Life | August 19th 2007
With the recent Haiti UFO video that spread like wild fire across the net and it's pretty quick debunking, comes a lot of imitators, I guess trying to catch on to the success of the videos that caused all this. The problem for them though is that no read more
Vue 6.5 Render
Too many Ideas | August 10th 2007
Another picture made using Vue 6.5 playing with the new cloud lighting features. Here a single red quadratic spotlight points at the cloud from behind the hill. The hill has the Hollywood Jungle EcoSystem applied. read more
Wordless Wednesday #18: Willo-the-wisp
Too many Ideas | August 7th 2007
Willo-the-wisp. Made using the new 6.5 version of Vue 6 Infinite released today by e-on software featuring plants from Realms Art Wetland Plants. read more
Vue Tutorial: Cloud Layer Sculpting
Too many Ideas | July 7th 2007
I've been playing with reversing the idea I used for punching holes in a spectral cloud layer in Vue 6 to create God Rays. Instead of making holes I've been cutting out clouds in shapes of my own design from cloud layers. Here are two ways you c read more
Wordless Wednesday #13
Too many Ideas | July 3rd 2007
A little later than normal this week - An experiment with computer simulated clouds to pursade Vue 6 Infinite into making them match a shape I wanted. 1. Gattina2. Nancy Liedel3. Jenny®4. Dariana5. Vlado&Toni6. And Miles To Go...7. Lori8. Ros read more
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