Quote from: njeneb on October 31, 2009, 11:11:04 AM
I was able to get Vue Infinite. It's very nice until you want to render something. Then it crashes. I think it could be a great program, but it's way too expensive. Upgrades cost more money. It also seems that upgrades are actually patches to fix problems. I am considering abandoning the program.
Besides, things in Terragen 2 make sense to me; even when I have no true idea what the thing I am using actually does. It does do the thing I want.
Vue is extremely user friendly; the only obstacles between it and being a wonderful program are:
1) E-On attitude towards customers (they look at us just a the proverbial Barnum suckers to be milked as much as possible);
2) E-On lack of quality control (actaully about half of the fixes do
add bugs, not
fix them);
3) the behaviour of a small but really dangerous group of fanboys (I have nicknamed them the Vue Klux Klan
) which roam every forum even remotely connected with Vue and implacably harrass and silence any kind of criticism towards Vue and E-On.
Being these obstacles human-related and not technology related, there is no solution (at least none that does not send you into a prison or a psychiatric hospital..). As an example, I was so fed up with these problems that I actually stopped working with Vue and have switched to Carrara.
As a last note, I really like the general attitude of this forum: people do complain, but things are resolved in most cases in a totally civilized way.
Bye!!!
P.S.: in this
http://www.cornucopia3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10106 thread you will find some renders with Vue8: people salivate on them... I don't find them so different from what 7 could do though godrays are now easier to create... a valid reason to upgrade?