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.

Versions

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

See also
Blender
Cinema 4D
3dsmax 
Maya
Unity 3D
Unreal
Daz
Photoshop
Lightwave 3D
Modo
Substance
Bryce

References

External links
E-on Software

3D graphics software
Computer graphics