Vue 7 is shipping

The day has finaly come when vue7 is hitting the streets running in full speed.
No need to say much else then vue7 being a nice improvement over vue6 in terms of render quality, render speed and stability and alot of other core improvements.

Ecosystems has hit generation 3, spectral clouds has reach generation 2 and scenes can be viewed as graphs, terrains now accepts 16bit and ecopaint has reached even higher levels then seen in vue6.

Vue7

Back to school bash 2008

Örnsköldsvik.net, Moyo, Area 1 and some other companies is all set for next weekend´s back to school bash 2008 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.

Extreme sport athletes from all around Sweden will meet up to battle it out as the back to school bash 2008 champion in Örnsköldsvik on August 30.

The place is called strandparken and it´s located right next to Swedbank arena, the home arena of Modo Hockey, last years elitserien champions.

You can read more about back to school bash 2008 over at the örnsköldsvik.net website.

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Örnsköldsvik.net is covering back to school bash 2008

Vue commercial movie usage during 2008

E.on has announced that vue was used amongst others in the following 2008 movies.

Indiana Jones And the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Ilm artist Yanick Dusseault which is the Digital Matte Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic had this to say.

"Creating entire vistas was a first in my playbook and that's just been wonderful. Vue was my only option and it turned out to be the best option!"



©LucasFilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Photo Credits: Industrial Light & Magic, Used Under Permission.

Kung Fu Panda

The following is an excerpt from an online Interview from Markus Manninen, VFX Supervisor on KungFu Panda, made by CGSociety. Republished under Dreamworks exclusive permission

"A lot of our large locations went through a process where the world was created roughly in Vue by our matte painting lead Scott Brisbane. Then the renders out of that were painted on by our matte painters to define the finished detail and push the look and lighting further. The final matte paintings were then projected back on geometry by our matte painting compositors and rendered on the farm. […]

The matte paintings on our film were the most advanced and the most shots that we'd done to date. Even larger than some of the live action films that depend heavily on them. I was truly inspired by their work. The Production Designer and I had planned to rely heavily on matte painting on the film, and we were extatic when the process worked out so well."

And Skycrawlers, a movie by Polygon Pictures.

New English article @ örnsköldsvik.net

Örnsköldsvik.net has awoken from it´s english slumber, well to be honest, we´ve just been more then busy adding new content to the Swedish main website and we´ve added tons of Swedish articles in the past month´s and we´ve also updated the website, it´s navigation and even the blogg has seen quite a few enhancements during the summer, so yeah we know, we´ve neglected the English part of the site, neglected but not forgotten about it tho :)

So it´s time to start churning out some articles in English and the first one out is an article about Skuleberget and High Coast Center, a company managing three very lovely via ferrata routes at skuleberget.

Besides some textual content there´s a hefty bunch of lovely looking photos from Skuleberget which we took earlier this summer for the Swedish version of the article.

So if you´re in the mood for experiencing the lovely Swedish archipelago and the world heritage high coast and Skuleberget then why not start out by reading our article and looking at our photos, and if you´re one of the thousands of tourists visiting Örnsköldsvik for Star wars the exhebition, well then make sure you do not miss out on visiting Skuleberget before you head on back home.

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Örnsköldsvik.net article - Skuleberget, High Coast Center

Vue7 drawing closer

E.on´s going to show off vue7 @ siggraph so in other words, one can expect vue7 to hit the streets before or around christmas, unless it´s alot more stable in it´s current form then vue6 was at the same during it´s development.

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Official pressrelease

More news from Caligari founder

In a follow up to the news posted below this post here´s a link to the Caligari founder, featuring videos and images from the new and free of charge 7.6 version of caligari and some textual information.

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Captains thread

Truespace 7.6 free of charge

Yeah that´s right and a bit crazy, truespace, formerly a 599us$ app is from now on available free of charge.

It all comes down to Microsoft acquiring Caligari, the true space developers some time ago, and Microsoft are now doing a Google thingy and simply releasing the app for free, trying to boost their Live earth service just like google did with sketchup and their earth app.

So let´s see, that means you have seriously capable free apps like Sketchup, Caligari, Daz Studio and gimp and Houdini 9.5 HD available for 99us$, has it ever been so affordable getting your hands on so many and capable tools.

Great times for newcomers of course.

Read more

Virtual earth on the true space for free deal

Opera 9.5 has been released

We usualy dont care about Opera to be honest, part from having to design for it.
But Opera 9.5 is blistering fast, actually it´s so fast that i´m now going cold turkey with firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 also works smooth as pie with web compliant websites.

Great update and until IE 8.0 get´s released my new pet fav browser.

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Opera 9.5

MGS 4, review and images

Lot´s of spoilers so beware tho, but the keypoint is that it´s written by a non MGS fan, who´s prior history was limited to playing mgs 2 on pc, however he claims that for aslong as he can count to 10 and remember 10 games Metal gear solid 4 will be amongst those 10 games and that´s simply put how good this game is.

Anyway, i have to confess that we havent preordered this game, but after reading this review that´s exactly what we´ll do.

hit the link for the scanned magazine pages.

Mgsforums.com

Streaming and free Vue video tutorials.

Ivan Barbarich is one of the many talented vue users that´s contributing his time and knowledge for others to benefit from.

Actually, more then one Vue user will testify that Ivans free of charge tutorials eclips commercial dvd´s like Asilefx´s.

www: Ivan, flv videotutorials

Blender 2.46

New features 2.46

What a nice improvement over previous Blender versions and in all honesty, Blender is now seriously on the verge of rendering quite a few commercial packages obsolete and in fact, Blender is one app which i would love to see vue7 Extreme and Infinite support out of the box.

One more Resistance 2 screen

This one was posted over at ps3 fanboy.

ps3 fanboy, resistance 2 images

Resistance 2 looking sharp

Psu has a few more screens and it´s pretty obvious that Resistance 2 has come along way since it´s older brother and if it´s gameplay improvements and refinements can match it´s new looks it will for sure be a nice ride.

In all honesty, we never felt that the first game was that great, it had a nice atmosphere and story but that was all there was to it since the graphics and linear maps were alittle last century, but with Resistance 2 things look like they´ve been heavily improved upon and it´s 8 player co.op for sure is something we´re looking forward to.

Psu

Baltic sea tour 2008 - East indiaman Göthenborg

Örnsköldsvik.net added a new English section today, the Baltic sea tour 2008, East Indiaman ship Göthenborg which will be touring the baltic sea during the summer.

Göthenborg will amongst other visit Örnsköldsvik July 27 to 29 smack in the middle of the Star wars the exhibition event.

Lot´s of high profile events in Örnsköldsvik this summer in other word.
Göthenborg is a real life replica of a ship that sank just outside of Sweden 1745, it was authenticly rebuilt and is now sailing the seas of the world and has even visited china.

Websites

Baltic sea tour website section

Playboy, voted - sexiest gamer of the year

Well, in all honesty she was elected, the sexiest cybergirl of the year, but since she loves pc and console games we rephrased the title.

Besides, one thing we dont get is why is it so weird when females and especialy good looking females enjoy a good console or computer game, hell, sexy looking girls are allowed to have fun aswell, or? If not, dont tell my girlfriend since she both enjoys playing games and have the looks to match playboys choice and that´s a combination i enjoy alot :).

Europe´s the main Sony territory

Well no, not if you look at pricepoint, release dates and such, but it might be if you look at quality since we usualy have both the US and Japan beta testing early consoles and other hardware.

However, Europe realy is the main Sony territory if you look at revenue and sales, yep that´s right, Eu is now the nr.1 income and sales territory for Sony, and that´s not just talking about the lovely Ps3.

Other media

Sony operating income article

Carrara 6 pro, Mimic plugin and C6.2 update

Daz continues to churn out new Carrara 6 updates, this time the Pro lineup is recieving a 6.2 update which fixes alot of bugs and smaller issues + adding support for the Mimic Pro plugin which recently got released.

That combined with it´s stellar C6pro sale should make for quite alot of new c6pro users, if you´re into 3d and digital media it´s more then worth looking into even tho i prefer vue6 Infinite over C6pro for landscape and scenery Carrara has alot to offer when it comes to modelling, posing, Hair and Fur creation, rendering and animation, my personal opinion is that there´s room for both apps in your pipeline atleast for the current c6pro sales price.

C6Pro 6.2 update

Nin.New and free of charge cd - The slip

Yeap, Nin´s doing it again, last time it was Ghosts and now they are back, releasing their new cd on their website, free of charge before the cd hit stores later this summer.

A great initiative and aparently it´s working just great for them seeing it´s the second album in a row that they are releasing like this.

Hopefully, more artists will follow suit and who knows, perhaps Metallica will be the next one.
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http://www.nin.com/

Freezing issues with GTA IV? Easy fix

No need for that 12 step program which R* posted, just log off PSN before you start GTA IV, tht will solve your problem and if you fancy playing some multiplayer, just log back in from inside of the game.

We cant confirm that last bit since we´re still enjoying playing by our own, but loging off PSN do cure the freezing issue, and we know it because GTA IV used to freeze every single time we tried to play it before loging out of PSN.

Ulvön and Veckefjärden Golf club - UK sections

Time has come for the weekly UK update over at örnsköldsvik.net and this time it´s not just one section but two.

One is featuring Veckefjärdens Pro Golf Club, which will amongst other, hold the very first yearly Pensum Invitational by Peter Forsberg this autumn and the other new section is all about Ulvön, an Island just marking the southern boarder of Örnsköldsvik and part of the high coast world heritage.

As always there´s both images and textual content.

Örnsköldsvik.net, UK sections

Ulvön - The high coast pearl
Veckefjärden Golf club