VisualARQ 2.0 sneak preview: The Furniture object

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The following video shows one of the main features of the upcoming VisualARQ 2.0 version: the new Furniture object. This new object is meant to be used for all the furniture elements in the project design. The video shows two ways to create new Furniture object styles: Using 3D and 2D blocks for the furniture … Read more

VUE 2016 Leaks #2: PlantFactory Variations

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1- In PlantFactory 2016 PlantFactory 2015 introduced the concept of Presets. PlantFactory 2016 now introduces the concept of Preset Variations. Preset Variations allow you to immediately include subtle differences to your plant (change the number of buds on a blooming flower, or its petal colours for instance). This new feature allows you to easily add … Read more

VUE 2016 Leaks #1: Interactive Path Tracer

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Hybrid GPU/CPU Interactive Path Tracer GPU rendering comes to VUE with the new Path Tracer renderer. This renderer naturally and automatically simulates real-life lighting, and automatically calculates many effects that have to be specifically set with other methods, such as soft shadows, depth of field, caustics, ambient occlusion, and indirect lighting. Path tracing in VUE … Read more

Orca3D Tutorial: Creating a Planar Sheerline

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A planar sheerline will never show any inflections, no matter the view. It will always be completely concave, convex, or flat, no matter your vantage point. Many believe that this is the mark of an “elegant” sheerline. In this video, you will see how to place the control points along the sheer in a plane, … Read more

V-Ray for Maya Update Available

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The new 3.40.03 build for V-Ray  for Maya is now available to download here. Bug fixes include: V-Ray Fixed image sequences with an index out of the sequence range not rendering Fixed crashes on old Maya versions on virtual machines and old GPUs Fixed wrong result with material environment override Fixed set driven keys not … Read more