VUE and PlantFactory 2023

VUE and PlantFactory 2023 R0 (8005859) adds consistent material reflection handling for standard materials across all atmosphere models and render engines and improves the core workflow experience of the Function Editor, the heart of many of VUE's advanced setups.

What's new in VUE 2023 - Date: January 11, 2023

Main features in Release 2023:
- Feature parity between Creator and Professional
- Complete Function Editor overhaul
- GGX reflection model for highlights
- Redshift conversion of VUE scenes in 3DS Max
This release adds additional plugin compatibility for the following host application versions and render engines (bold items are new):
- 3D Studio Max 2016 to 2023
- Maya 2015 to 2023
- Cinema4D R20 to 2023
- Redshift material conversion (starting from 3.0.46) in Maya 2020 and above, Cinema 4D R23 and above and 3D Studio Max 2022 and above
- Support for V-Ray 6 in 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D

VUE is the only environment package on the market that includes everything you need for creating beautiful CG environments. From skies and volumetric clouds to terrains, large-scale EcoSystems, wind-swept vegetation, open water bodies, roads and rocks: everything is right there for you to use out of the box. VUE ships with a hefty plant library, comprised of over 170 plant species, from HD vegetation to low resolution. The VUE vegetation technology ensures that no two plants you add to your scene will be identical, freeing you from hardcore vegetation modeling tasks, and adding more subtlety to your scenes. The Plant Editor lets you easily customize any of the plants included and allows you to create your own, unique plant species. VUE will also automatically animate plants for you so that they gently sway in the breeze, or twist and bend in strong winds. VUE is natively compatible with the fully procedural PlantFactory file format, to produce high-quality hero trees as well as distant vegetation. VUE can animate all of the exposed plant properties (such as Health, Seasonality or any other published plant parameter).