Sorry to say, there’s a problem with PayPal again and their payment system. Or to be correct, there’s a problem with the account that LightVue store is connected to.

Until this is solved (it’s been slowly resolved), if you want to place an order and pay via PayPal, please contact me at croxie@gmail.com and I will assist you to go through a backdoor procedure to get your payment done and your download available.

And thanks for the patience

Christa

There’s been very few atmospheres done lately, both from me and Paul actually. We both have different reasons, but the bottom line is that other things have come in between.

So right now the only atmospheres that at least I’m creating is what I make for my own renders…and those are rather rare too at the moment.
Doesn’t sound too promising, does it?
Well…I hope that those of you who bought atmospheres from us have what you need for now. The selection in the store should cover most seasons etc.

Above is one render that I made a week ago or so. I’ve been inspired by the movie “Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow” while making some of my renders, and this one belong to those. The planes are free downloads from ColaCola (link is in the sidebar) and the rest is me and Vue.

This is another one of those rare Poser+Vue creations that I sometimes do.
The main reason for this was the amazing morph that I found at Renderosity for V4 the other day. The face of Audrey Hepburn has always fascinated me and she was extremely beautiful in a natural way.

This render was made in Vue 6 xStream. The morph is called Aurelie Petite and it is made by Jochen38.
Hair is Champagne Hair from Daz.

During this past week I’ve been buried in helping a sick friend to close down his business…and it’s not entirely finished yet. I’ve got almost 30 web hosting clients to redirect elsewhere, and some of them need help to get their sites back up and running.

Together with this shut down I was also handed the ownership and responsibility over a huge art community that has been around for almost 6 years now. So I had to convert the forums and gallery from an old version of phpNuke to the new shiny version of phpBB3. Took a couple of days to do, but it’s back up on a different server again It’s called Cybernetic Bumper Breath 3D if anyone want to take a peek. New members are always welcome.

This means that I haven’t opened Vue during this past week at all. I don’t even know if it still works :p
And I’ve got some really bad creative withdrawals. Being swamped in database structures will do that to you.

However, the render above was one of my contributions to the Stonemason contest at Daz3D a while back. I haven’t been able to post it anywhere until now since it was against the rules in the contest. But, the winner has been declared, so it’s okiday

This atmosphere pack is my first in a couple of months…mainly because I’ve done other things and there’s been a lack of inspiration as well.

However, as I’ve made new renders I’ve saved some of the atmospheres that I’ve used myself.
Among others, the one in the scifi render below is included in this pack…but without the meta cloud that I used for my render.

As usual I’ve included 3 versions of each atmosphere. Global Ambience, Ambient Occlusion and Global Radiosity. Then it’s up to you (and the size of your computer) which one will fit best.

This pack is available here and it’s $10.00.

To see a bigger version of these atmospheres, click the image above.

Happy Rendering

I rarely make scifi renders and it’s not that I don’t like scifi…it just doesn’t happen very often, that’s all. Our own green planet has got too many scenes to render for me to get very far out in space I guess :p

Anyway…I made an exception last night while putting together a new pack of atmospheres. The result is above. Models used are: airplane is from colacola.se (link in the sidebar here) and the biggie coming through the clouds is a 3d model of one of the federation ships from Star Trek, downloaded for free at STMC, which have every Star Trek mesh that you can ever ask for.

The atmosphere is a tweaked version from an earlier pack that you can find in the store…however, it will also be a part of a new pack that I’m working on. But…if you would want it now and can’t wait, it’s a part of Painted Dreams. Just remember that I’ve tweaked it a lot…and I’ve used a big meta cloud at the front of that spaceship to give the clouds a bit more depth.

Thanks for peeking in and I hope you have a sunny and warm weekend

I’ve had about a week downtime due to a horrible Internet Provider and I’m doing a lot of catch up right now.
Just so you all know that this place is not dead - I just stopped existing for a bit.

Rising Sun is an atmosphere pack made by Paul. Instead of making sunsets he decided to make sunrises this time around

There are 10 very nice atmospheres in this pack and I can recommend it. Give your render the hope of a new day with these sunrises

Price is $12.00.

Today we have got a new atmosphere pack in store, made by Paul Trepanier.
It is a collection of 10 very foggy atmospheres that will give your scene that little extra scary or creepy feeling to it. Or, you can use them for anything you like, of course.

In this pack there is a ReadMe file, and Paul added that because the fog settings can be a bit confusing, which slide to use etc. But it’s all in the package.

As usual, it’s $10 and it is included in the Featured Products on the index page in the store.

There’s a bit of news from this end of the universe today.

The LightVue family was expanded with a new member earlier today. A forum where you can ask questions, make suggestions, requests, comment, complain or just sit down and have a java

You need to be registered in the store to access these forums, so login at the store with your username and password to get to the link. For now the store and the forum is not fully integrated, so you will have to sign up at the forums separately.
I apologize about this inconvenience, but it all comes down to technical aspects that works only in theory and I’m searching for a solution so that new members in the store doesn’t have to go through with two separate registrations.

In the meantime, when you sign up for the forums, please use the email address that you used when you signed up in the store. That way it is easier to help you if you have questions about something you bought in the store earlier.

There are also two fields in the registration process for the forum that was added especially for LightVue. One is what version of Vue you’re using. It’s a mandatory field mostly because it makes it easier for other members to help you and neither of us have to repeat that in the posts.

The other field is a username field that refers to Renderosity’s username. If you are a member at Rosity both me and Paul have most likely seen you before if you are active in either the galleries or the forums…or both.
This field is entirely up to you if you want to use or not. If you’re using the same name at LightVue Forums as you do at Rosity, you can ignore that field all together.

Again, it’s a matter of recognizing people.

Other than forums we have some new atmospheres coming up. Paul has got a pack of very foggy atmospheres that will be added to the store shortly.
And I’ve got some loose ends to gather into a pack that will be added in about the same time.