SIGGRAPH: E-ON SHOWS NATURAL ENVIRONMENT CREATION TOOL
Vue 9 will be released in Q4 and will offer new features such as EcoSystem 4, with dramatically reduced flickering, optimized rendering and memory management for Dynamic EcoSystems, and the ability to re-light scenes after the render is complete.
HyperTextured MetaBlobs can now be converted to polygon objects with user defined LOD, allowing for the creation of extremely rich and detailed rock formations.
The terrain editor has been improved with new decal and smear brushes. Custom interfaces allow users to create high-level controls, which can be accessed from the material editor, the terrain editor or the object editors. Interactive network rendering has been added, and an auto save/snapshot feature saves the scenes in the background, while users continue working.
The company is also showing the Carbon Scatter set of plug-ins that allow the creation of complex populations. Carbon Scatter integrates E-on’s EcoSystem algorithms directly inside the end user’s favorite 3D application.