You'll find a variety of Vue tutorials, all of them free, that show you several useful tips and tricks to push the boundaries of your creativity.
As companions to the tutorials, we suggest using the booster packs that are available for purchase for around $3.94 each. They include the brushes, models, plants, presets, atmospheres, materials, alpha maps we used in the tutorial they?re paired with, plus some bonuses. Also, we have additional booster packs available that are bundles of atmospheres, materials, models, plans, alpha maps, brushes, and much more.
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75. Tips to mix materials.07/23/2008 Vue 6
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Creating mix materials.
  • Smooth blending terrain materials
  • Function driven mix
  • Tree bark, fast tip

74. Poser and Vue.07/16/2008 Vue 6
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Poser Vue.

73. Advance celshading.07/02/2008 Vue 6
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Advanced Celshading.

72. Totem.06/27/2008 Vue 6
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Jungle village.

71. Daz™ Studio.06/21/2008 Vue 6
70. God rays.06/21/2008 Vue 6
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Sky options.
  • Enable god rays option.
  • Setup clouds and sun position for best result.
  • Removing grain from rendering.

69. Rust on box edges. Advance materials.06/16/2008 Vue 6
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Advance material creation.
  • Combining images and functions.
  • Set up mapping mode.
  • Rust on edge of box.

67. Desert, rising hot air. 06/03/2008 Vue 6
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Desert set:
  • Creating hot air movie filter.
  • Adding separation.
  • Animating hot air.

66. Icebergs, water and ship. 06/02/2008 Vue 6
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Material creation:
  • Creating icebergs.
  • Water with floating ice.
  • Adding model and setup atmosphere.

65. Space, red dwarf and supernova.05/27/2008 Vue 6
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Creating space materials:
  • Red dwarf type sun, materials.
  • Supernova shockwaves.
  • Asteroids.

64. Creating Jungle. 05/27/2008 Vue 6
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Workflow to create still image of jungle:
  • Setup terrain.
  • Composition, plants positioning.
  • Atmosphere set up atmosphere.

63 Tips to creating realistic ecosystem . 05/27/2008 Vue 6
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Few tips about ecosystem:
  • Plants over plants, how to create hanging moss or ice on trees.
  • Function controlled population.
  • Realistic looking colors.

62. Building Construction Kit overview. 05/27/2008 Vue 6
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Building Construction Kit:
  • Loading and optimizing models.
  • Create custom buildings.
  • Overview components.

61. From Closeup to large size landscapes. 05/19/2008 Vue 6
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Large size landscapes:
  • Setup high detail areas for close up.
  • Creating large size landscape.
  • Set up atmosphere.

60. Backdrop for your web projects.05/15/2008 Vue 6
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Creating outstanding backdrop for you web interfaces:
  • Large size of terrain with realistic ecosystem.
  • Using Building Construction Kit and Mega Packs.
  • Set up lighting and small post production adjustment.
  • click here to view example

59. Creating animated title. 05/07/2008 Vue 6
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Alpha planes:
  • Setup alpha planes in Vue 6.
  • Creating animation set with alpha planes.
  • Lighting and animation.

58. Oil spill on water. 05/04/2008 Vue 6
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Advance material:
  • Creating mix materials.
  • Function editor.
  • Adjustment layers.

57. Modeling simple bridge in Vue.05/04/2008 Vue 6
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Simple modeling in Vue:
  • Creating bridge with boolean operations.
  • Creating layered texture for bridge.
  • Improve clouds in sky.

56. Ventilator. 4/30/2008 Vue 6
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Ventilator and eco system:
  • Ventilator properties.
  • Linking vent to meteor.
  • Creating meteor animation and effecting ecosystem.

55. Shrine. 4/25/2008 Vue 6
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Setup model materials:

54. Volcanic Island. 4/15/2008 Vue 6
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Mixing type of terrains:
  • Loading terrain image map.
  • Adding functions to terrain.
  • Material management.

53. Creating road based on material distribution. 4/6/2008 Vue 6
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Creating realistic looking road:
  • Creating layers in photoshop.
  • Image base terrain map.
  • Assign material based on image distribution.
  • Ecosystem population based on image distribution.

52. Closeup on ground. 4/1/2008 Vue 6
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Creating mixed material based on camera position:
  • Understanding interpolation.
  • Creating mix material with controled distribution.
  • Creating high rez material around camera for close up.
  • You can animate camera and keep closeup texture around camera.

51. Fireworks. 3/26/2008 Vue 6
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Object duplication and scattering:
  • Creating light with animated properties.
  • Duplicate objects.
  • Simulating fireworks.

50. Snow on the hills. 3/22/2008 Vue 6
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Material distribution:
  • Creating custom terrain.
  • Reuse terrain filters.
  • Set distribution scale

49. Clouds setting, high atmosphere. 3/15/2008 Vue 6
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Removing grain from clouds:
  • Adjusting atmosphere settings for rendering.
  • Fly out from planet.
  • Resources from Lightwave community. great forum, resources.

48. Camera manipulation, zoom, zoom. 3/15/2008 Vue 6
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Focal settings:
  • DOF limits.
  • Zoom and dolly.

47. Creating waterfalls with alpha maps. 3/10/2008 Vue 6
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Waterfalls with alpha maps:
  • Creating animated alpha map.
  • Embedding map in scenes.
  • Free animated alpha maps available. click here to get them

46. Explosion simulation. 2/25/2008 Vue 6
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Simulating explosion:
- Object scattering.
- Object manipulation.

45. Flying test. 2/18/2008 Vue 6
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Camera animation:
- Camera and object linking.
- Creating smoke alpha plane in Vue.
- Click here to download tutorial smoke pack.

Warning: due to bug in alpha planes, some techics in this tutorial may effect Vue application to nonstandard exit. In other words, it may crash, so save your work man!

44. Advance materials with Filter Forge. 2/11/2008 Vue 6
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Advance material creation:
- Creating texture layers in Filter Forge.
- Assign materials in Vue.
- Get free trial of Filter Forge. For PC only. Mac version coming soon.

43. Strange life. 2/03/2008 Vue 6
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Multiple techniques:
- Creating realistic cracks in pavement.
- Using building construction kit.
- Setting atmosphere.

42. Camera manipulation. 1/31/2008 Vue 6
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Camera settings and manipulation:
- Creating and managing multiple cameras.
- Camera path, and linking.
- DOF and other weird words.

41. Boxes. 1/19/2008 Vue 6
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Advance material creation:
- Material functions.
- Global transparency.
- Understanding functions.

40. Making Roads. 1/12/2008 Vue 6
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Three ways to making roads:
- Material distribution road.
- Boolean road.
- Image mapped road.

39. Ground fog. 1/06/2008 Vue 6
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Atmosphere manipulation:
- Creating round rock valley.
- Modifying clouds and atmosphere.
- Cloud layer manipulation

38. Movie filters. 12/30/2007 Vue 6
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Simulation optical filters:
- Creating image base filters.
- Alpha plane controls.
- Improving image
* Filter library available inside Building Construction Kit.

37. Lost Marbles. 12/22/2007 Vue 6
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Advance material manipulation:
- Material functions.
- Applying multilayered.
- Creating lost marbles
* You can use same techics to create planets, eyes or christams decorations. Come to forum and post your idea.

36. Crop circles. 12/15/2007 Vue 6
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Image map to create crop circles:
- Creating image map.
- Applying image map to ecosystem.
- Color adjustment
* narrator: Vladimir Chopine
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