title: E-on Vue
text: # E-on Vue
  
  Vue is a software tool for world generation by e-on software with support for many visual effects, animations and various other features. The tool has been used in several feature-length movies.
  
  ## Versions
  
  | VUE | PlantFactory |
  | - | - |
  | VUE 2016 / VUE 2015 / VUE 2014 / VUE 11 | PlantFactory 2016 / PlantFactory 2015 / PlantFactory 2014 |
  | CloudFactory - Ozone | Carbon Scatter |
  | CloudFactory 2017 / CloudFactory 2015 / Ozone 6 / Ozone 5 | Carbon Scatter 2017 / Carbon Scatter 2015 / Carbon Scatter 2 / Carbon Scatter |
  
  ## Features
  
  This is a list of features as of the 2023 release of Vue:
  
  ### Terrains
  
  * Heightfield terrains
  * Procedural terrains
  * Infinite terrains
  * Planetary terrains
  * Real-world terrains
  * 3D terrain sculpting
  * Terrain export
  
  ### EcoSystem Instancing Technology
  
  * Material-based EcoSystems
  * Global EcoSystems
  * Dynamic EcoSystems
  * 360° EcoSystem Population
  * Paint EcoSystem instances
  * EcoParticles
  * Export EcoSystem populations
  
  ### Vegetation
  
  * Built-in Plant editor
  * Compatible with PlantFactory
  * Vegetation assets
  
  ### Atmosphere, Skies and Clouds
  
  * Standard atmospheric model
  * Spectral atmospheric model
  * Photometric atmospheric model
  * Atmosphere presets
  * Procedural Volumetric 3D cloud layers
  * Standalone 3D Metaclouds
  * Convert meshes to Clouds
  * Cloud morphing
  * Import OpenVDB
  * Export standalone and cloud layer zones to OpenVDB
  * Export skies as HDRI
  
  ### Modeling
  
  * Primitive and Feature modeling
  * 3D Text edition tool
  * Metablobbing
  * Hyperblobs
  * Export baked hyperblobs
  * Splines
  * Built in Road Construction toolkit
  * Random rock generator
  * Export rocks
  
  ### Texturing and UVs
  
  * Material presets
  * PBR
  * Substance support
  * Node-based procedural materials
  * Volumetric materials and Hypertextures
  * Stacked UVs
  * Unwrapped UVs
  * Ptex
  
  ### Interoperability, Integration And Export
  
  * Export single assets to generic 3D formats
  * Full scene export
  * Integration plugins
  * Import and Export Camera data as FBX and Nuke.chan
  * Python API
  * ZBrush GoZ bridge
  
  ### Animation
  
  * Animate objects, materials, atmospheres, clouds, waves...
  * Automatic wind and breeze
  * Localized wind effects per plant / per EcoSystem population
  * Omni and directional ventilators for local modifications of plants
  * Time spline editor
  * Automatic keyframe creation
  * Automatic synchronization of cameras and lights
  * Animation export as AfterEffects
  * Import motion tracking information
  
  ### Lighting
  
  * Global illumination, Global Radiosity, Ambient occlusion
  * Subsurface Scattering
  * HDRI image based lighting
  * Point light, Quadratic point light, Spotlight, Quadratic spotlight, Directional light
  * Use IES distribution profiles on photometric lights
  * Area lights, light panels, light portals
  * Physically accurate caustics computation
  
  ### Rendering
  
  * Render with Ray Tracer
  * Render with Path Tracer
  * Stereoscopic rendering
  * 360/180 VR Panorama Render Option
  * Spherical panoramic rendering
  * Tone mapping options
  * Multipass & G-Buffer
  * Network rendering with HyperVue / RenderCows
  * Network rendering with RenderNodes
  
  ## Users
  
  * Blue Sky Studios
  * Digital Domain
  * DreamWorks Animation: Kung Fu Panda
  * Industrial Light & Magic: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  * Sony Pictures Imageworks
  * Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
  * Weta Digital
  