Quote from: Cyber-Angel on November 27, 2007, 06:41:22 PM
@Tangled Universe
It is true that the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy was created created with VUE, however the digital terrain in Stealth was created with the same software they used on Flags of Our Fathers which is called EnGen which is used at Digital Domain and form what I understand is based on the same base code as TG2, but it was taken in a direction that Digital Domain needed to take it for their own use.
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
Yes that's correct. Matt was allowed to take some of the EnGen code with him to develop Terragen. I think one of Matt's purposes is to make the technology available and understandable for the majority of people. EnGen can be seen as the further developed and way less userfriendlier version of TG.
The main point is Calico's hypothesis that Terragen isn't interesting for the CG industry which I think, and already explained, isn't correct.
Quote from: Sethren on November 27, 2007, 08:44:44 PM
The terrains and flora created in Vue were probably exported to a third party renderer and detailed digital matte paint composting was probably added to further enhance the illusion of a live action/3d mixed scene. If Vue looked that good by itself i would have abandoned Terragen.
Here's a brief description of the production pipeline of Pirates of the Caribbean using Vue.
As you can read all the scenes are rendered within Vue, except for a few scenes (due to flickering apparently).
It's possible/assumable that E-on assisted ILM in this production by providing additional code for example.
And yes, digital matte painting is also involved, but when isn't it??? In every production, using Max, Maya, whatever...matte painting and/or 2D-projections are involved. Just for the sake of time/costs. These techniques are mainly used in mid- or background parts of the scenes.
http://www.e-onsoftware.com/showcase/spotlights/?page=1What I meant to say, again, is that TG as well as Vue are interesting enough for the industry. I think TG has to develop further (and will I hope) to take Vue's place in future productions.
One software package to serve all the industry's needs isn't just possible