Vue 2024 can now render using Cycles

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• mmitchell_houston Posts: 2,535

  May 19

  Okay... um, your health issues sound TERRIFYING! Hopefully you are getting better and your health will improve and your quality of life will be great.

  Hmmmm. This is interesting news. I used to LOVE Vue, but haven't touched it in years. I'll take another look at it.
• kenmo Posts: 1,203

  May 19

  It is now FREE and can be download here from Bentley whom purchased Ve a few years back from e-onsoftware.

  https://www.bentley.com/software/e-on-software-free-downloads/
• bytescapes Posts: 1,931

  May 20

  I am not an expert on Cycles or Blender, but I did do a quick test with a Vue scene and the Cycles rendering option. The result looked very different from what you'd get using Vue's own renderer, and wasn't really usable. You can't -- as I rather naively assumed -- just render a Vue scene in Cycles. It looks like you'd need to do a lot of material tweaking to get results you'd be happy with.

  So it's certainly an option (although I think they say that it's still experimental or beta, and unlikely ever to be developed further) but it's not a one-click solution by any means.
• kenmo Posts: 1,203

  May 21

  Here are a couple of Vue renders using Cycles posted on the Facebook group "Vue Galleries".....

  

  

  VueCycles01.jpg

  1022 x 767 - 198K

  

  

  VueCycles02.jpg

  1030 x 857 - 214K

  

  

  VueCycles03.jpg

  1104 x 1057 - 159K
• bytescapes Posts: 1,931

  May 22

  kenmo said:

  Here are a couple of Vue renders using Cycles posted on the Facebook group "Vue Galleries".....

  Huh. Well, those don't look bad at all. I wonder why the results I got were so disappointing. 
• kenmo Posts: 1,203

  May 22

  Not sure. If you are on Facebook you can join the "Vue Galleries" group and ask. I have not tried Vue's Cycles yet.
• csaa Posts: 1,042

  May 22

  kenmo,

  Thanks for brining all this up. The interesting part about Vue for me is that it doesn't appear to need an NVidia GPU. Looking at that third Cycles renders you referenced above, I'm encouraged to give Vue a try with Blender. 

  Cheers!
• 3Diva Posts: 12,058

  June 15

  kenmo said:

  I post this here for anyone interested in rendering in Cycles. Vue maybe an option for Blender.

  And since Vue has not been updated since 2024, no need to fork out a zillion bucks for a new Nvidia gpu.

  Apparently it uses the Blender 3.6 Cycles engine.

  I have yet to try this. But will do soon. Just released from hospital on the weeking after picking up two nasty blood infections after my bladder removal last month.

  

  How are you? How's the blood doing? Did you get the infection kicked? I hope you're doing better!
• kenmo Posts: 1,203

  July 2

  3Diva said:

  kenmo said:

  I post this here for anyone interested in rendering in Cycles. Vue maybe an option for Blender.

  And since Vue has not been updated since 2024, no need to fork out a zillion bucks for a new Nvidia gpu.

  Apparently it uses the Blender 3.6 Cycles engine.

  I have yet to try this. But will do soon. Just released from hospital on the weeking after picking up two nasty blood infections after my bladder removal last month.

  

  How are you? How's the blood doing? Did you get the infection kicked? I hope you're doing better!

  Yes doing better. Blood infection has been beaten but I did have a nasty reaction to the antibiotic which they had to find an alternative.  I need a bit more surgery which will happen in a few weeks or so. Thanks for asking...