Hello guys and welcome to creating cloudy mountain in vue 6 infinite, well vue is one of the most powerful 3d applications in creating Haze and Fog, waterfalls, lushi green trees, plants, bushes, landscapes and allot more vegetations, while ago I have read an article on the official website of Vue it was about the movie (Pirates of the Caribbean’s Part 2) Hollywood (ILM) (Industrial Light and Magic) they have used this piece of software for creating lushi green trees, plants, bushes, haze and fog, landscapes, waterfalls and allot more, which were not possible without Vue, that is why Vue is so powerful in creating such things,
Lets get started,
1-So before going any further make sure you zoom out your main camera view which is also refer to (Open GL) view, (Open GL) stands for (Ongoing Industry Wide Range Contribution Graphics Library), you might be thinking why I am zooming out the view? its because once you created the terrain then we will scale it up fairly large to match the clouds which we are going to use, like on the image illustrating below,
2-Now from your tools bar choose Procedural Terrain,
3-Now you should have your terrain on the ground which is pretty small, ok scale it out to fix on the main camera view,
4-Once you scale out your terrain, still with terrain selected go to (Object>>Edit Object) like on the image showing below,
5-Here is your terrain editor turn of (Zero Edges) on the (Proc) tab in the (Scale) slider change the value to something match your test in this case mine is set to 0.70 which might differs from your terrain, and then hit (OK)
6-Once you happy with the shape of your terrain then tumble around the scene to find some cool looking angle, in this case you could see mine in the image below,
7-Still with the terrain selected from your property panel on the top click on the button with checkered sphere it will bring materials list choose according to your test,
8-Once you applied material to the terrain its time to start the fun part, from (Atmosphere) menu choose (Atmosphere Editor) like on the image showing you below,
9-You should see your Atmosphere Editor, now play with the settings you don’t need to follow along with my settings you are more then welcome to play with your own settings,
10-Now on the (Clouds) tab click on the button (Add) and then from the list of clouds choose any cloud shape you like, in the case I have choose (Thick Cumulus) cloud, but if you want to chose different one you are more then welcome,
11-And now start playing with the settings until you are not happy, here is my settings,
12-Once you played with the settings and see your clouds on the surface of terrain, its time to add one more cloud do the same as you did for the first cloud but this time chose different one then the first one you have choose,
13-Play with the settings, and here is my settings,
14-Now go to (Sky, Fog and Haze) tab set your preferred settings, and here is mine below,
15-For now we are done with the clouds and environments settings and lets populate our terrain with some trees, and some plants with the help of Vue`s EcoSystem, select your terrain and then in the property panel right click on the material slot and then chose (Edit Material) which you could see in the image below,
16-In the (Material Editor) click on the radio button labeled with (Ecosystem) now in the general tab click on the (Add) button and now from the pop up menu chose any thing you like to populate in this case you may need to chose (Plants) since we are dealing with terrain, add as much as plants you want but make sure you have some really good amount of RAM in your Machine otherwise you will find Vue crashing on you which is really not good, once you are happy with the settings then hit the (Populate) button then hit (OK), so here is my setup,
17-Now back to (Atmosphere Editor) in the (Sky, Fog and Haze) check the check box labeled with (Godrays), this is pretty nice option which will help you to create really nice looking rays coming out of clouds, to see the effect you may need to play with the (Azimuth) of your Sun, if you want to have more finer control on your clouds play with (Quality Boost) but its more render expensive,
18-Back to (Clouds) tab from the (Clouds Layers) highlight cloud name, and then from the thumbnail preview right click and chose (Edit Material), like on the image below,
19-In the (Material Editor) for the selected cloud now check the check box labeled with (Cast Shadows), if you don’t do this your Godrays wont work, do the same for your remaining clouds if you have,
20-Ok we are almost done its time to set render settings, do your render settings as you can see in the image below, or if you want to have more finer result chose (Broadcast) from the (Preset render Quality), once you happy with the settings hit (Render) Button, as you can see in the image below,
Here is few of my final renders with different settings and setups,
Final 1
Final 2
Final 3
Congratulations guys you have successfully completed the tutorial, I hope this could helped you out to create your own scenes like this, play with the settings there are endless possibilities in Vue to create outstanding photorealist renders,
if you still have any kind of Comments, Questions, Feedbacks, Suggestion please feel free to write me,
aziz3d@clubsrk.com – http://www.aziz3d.esmartdesign.com
