E-on Software recently pushed out Vue 11.5, seen as a production driven update its digital environment application adding some features centered around production feedback that they have received over the last little while.

e-on software, maker of the leading solutions for Digital Nature, announced today the immediate availability of Vue 11.5 xStream and Infinite, the latest production-driven version of its professional solutions for the creation, animation and rendering of natural 3D environments

Some of the production feedback resulted in a few feature and interface optimizations, all leading to a more streamlined workflow. Most notably, Vue 11.5 adds the ability to edit color channels as a post render option, providing a color input and output function. There are also improvements to the render stack, now allowing you to flip renders horizontally, merge render areas together, and adding the ability to reload camera or setting stacks on a per scene basis.

The EcoCollision feature brought in Vue 11 gets a bit of polish as well, now allowing you to have EcoParticles collide with EcoSystem instances, working with Vue’s snow, rain, and weather effects.

Other features of Vue 11.5 include:

  • Improved Material Management: The material summary was redesigned for improved display and manipulations of all materials in the scene. Material management from the World Browser also received several productivity enhancements.
  • World Browser Improvements: Many productivity enhancements were added to the world browser such as massive responsiveness gain thanks to internal optimization and new display options for materials, objects and layers.
  • Camera Management Improvements: Camera attributes can be frozen to avoid any unwanted modification to camera animation paths. Camera can also be saved and reloaded as Vue objects files.
  • RenderNode GI Prepass-only Rendering: The Vue 11.5 RenderNodes can be set to only render the GI pre-pass and save it for future use allowing major gain in network rendering time.

Vue 11.5 xStream and Vue 11.5 Infinite are available in English for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and on Mac OSX 10.5+ (Mac Intel only), for both 32 and 64 bit, and now Vue 11.5 is available free of charge for all users under maintenance.

Customers who purchased Vue 11 xStream or Infinite within 30 days of the release of Vue 11.5 will automatically receive Vue 11.5 at no cost as part of the Free 30 Day Maintenance included with all new purchases. More information on e-on software’s maintenance plans can be found at: www.e-onsoftware.com/maintenance

To find out more on Vue 11.5 new features and pricing, check the press release at e-on software here.