E-on Vue

Vue is a software tool for world generation by Bentley Systems with support for many visual effects, animations and various other features. The tool has been used in several feature-length movies.

In 2024, Bentley Systems announced that Vue would be discontinued, and be freely available to those that still wish to use it.

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