Vue is a software tool for world generation by Bentley Systems with support for many visual effects, animations and various other features. The tool has been used in several feature-length movies. In 2024, Bentley Systems announced that Vue would be discontinued, and be freely available to those that still wish to use it.

Versions

Features

This is a list of features as of the 2023 release of Vue:

Terrains

* Heightfield terrains * Procedural terrains * Infinite terrains * Planetary terrains * Real-world terrains * 3D terrain sculpting * Terrain export

EcoSystem Instancing Technology

* Material-based EcoSystems * Global EcoSystems * Dynamic EcoSystems * 360° EcoSystem Population * Paint EcoSystem instances * EcoParticles * Export EcoSystem populations

Vegetation

* Built-in Plant editor * Compatible with PlantFactory * Vegetation assets

Atmosphere, Skies and Clouds

* Standard atmospheric model * Spectral atmospheric model * Photometric atmospheric model * Atmosphere presets * Procedural Volumetric 3D cloud layers * Standalone 3D Metaclouds * Convert meshes to Clouds * Cloud morphing * Import OpenVDB * Export standalone and cloud layer zones to OpenVDB * Export skies as HDRI

Modeling

* Primitive and Feature modeling * 3D Text edition tool * Metablobbing * Hyperblobs * Export baked hyperblobs * Splines * Built in Road Construction toolkit * Random rock generator * Export rocks

Texturing and UVs

* Material presets * PBR * Substance support * Node-based procedural materials * Volumetric materials and Hypertextures * Stacked UVs * Unwrapped UVs * Ptex

Interoperability, Integration And Export

* Export single assets to generic 3D formats * Full scene export * Integration plugins * Import and Export Camera data as FBX and Nuke.chan * Python API * ZBrush GoZ bridge

Animation

* Animate objects, materials, atmospheres, clouds, waves... * Automatic wind and breeze * Localized wind effects per plant / per EcoSystem population * Omni and directional ventilators for local modifications of plants * Time spline editor * Automatic keyframe creation * Automatic synchronization of cameras and lights * Animation export as AfterEffects * Import motion tracking information

Lighting

* Global illumination, Global Radiosity, Ambient occlusion * Subsurface Scattering * HDRI image based lighting * Point light, Quadratic point light, Spotlight, Quadratic spotlight, Directional light * Use IES distribution profiles on photometric lights * Area lights, light panels, light portals * Physically accurate caustics computation

Rendering

* Render with Ray Tracer * Render with Path Tracer * Stereoscopic rendering * 360/180 VR Panorama Render Option * Spherical panoramic rendering * Tone mapping options * Multipass & G-Buffer * Network rendering with HyperVue / RenderCows * Network rendering with RenderNodes

Users

* Blue Sky Studios * Digital Domain *

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: Kung Fu Panda * Industrial Light & Magic: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest * Sony Pictures Imageworks * Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment * Weta Digital

References

External links

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