Is there a possibility to export scenes from Vue as swf files?
Is it planned to develop such a module (Plugin)?
Is there a Workaround?

You cannot export any thing except terrains from Vue 4.

I think what wubwien means is wether it is possible to save a rendered animation as a flash animation. And the answer is no. But what you can do is to render to a sequence of images, import that into flash and save it as swf. I haven't heard anything that a flash "export" is planned but maybe someone from e-on can say something to that here. I think more than wubwien will be interested.

It can be done with still images! Save the picture from Vue in a form that can be read by Adobe Illustrator. (other programs probably could be used) "Place" the file in Adobe Illustrator. "Export" the file as a .swf file. Works swell for static files. I took a 4+ meg file and squished it down to 137K and it looked decent. You could make animation backgrounds in Vue for Flash cartoons.

Thanx guys. Yes I'm a vector freak - and the basic objects of Vue are vectors. So why not think of exporting an animation into a vector format like swf?

well, you only have vectors in the construction mode. At the moment you render a frame or animation you get pixels - and nothing else than pixels. But that is something that Vue has in common with most of the 3D programs (exept Adobe Dimensions).

Wabe you are almost right. But see the Swift3d rendermachine called RAViX. There yout get vector swfs. And you can have RAViX as plugin for Maya, LightWave ... So I thought there will be some solution for Vue - but no way.

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Difficult wording "Maya... ...are professional softwares". I think Vue is professional too - i without problem am using Vue for my professional work as well if possible. But i think what you mean is that Vue has another focus. It is meant as a highly specialised package for landscapes and rendering. And not for modeling etc. And you're right, pricewise it is playing in another league, I think all this vector orientated add-ons are related to packages with a strong focus on modeling. There it makes sense to use the geometric datas for additional purposes.

Sure you're right. But not at all. You can't limit Maya or Max for modeling. ; Rhino or Amapi are limited to this. Animation is one of the main goal (with all dynamics implications, and simulation). Vue is, from my point of view, very good to make pictures. But enven if you work in 3 dimensions, renderer does not give the same quality of 3D restitution : it looks like 2d paint, there is not the same depth, the same volumes. In add, you can't professionnaly make animations with vue. I love vue, but I think it is more a paint or cartoon, or art software than a 3D software.

Now we start to become philosophical. Amapi - with every update - tells us that they mostly have improved the render quality. I don't limit Maya or Max for modeling. But they have a much stronger focus on that as programs like Vue or Bryce. At the moment i am doing/selling a Vue illustration to one of our clients (HP). And i have sold another one some weeks ago to DaimlerChrysler. So what do you mean that a package like that is not professional? A colleague has done a lot of TV animations with Bryce - most of them could have done with Vue as well. Again. Vue, Bryce etc are playing in another league. Not in terms of professionalism but mostly in terms of specific things. I am sure I can do things in Vue that are simply not possible in Maya or Max. So it is a question of design, not of the package I am using.

wabe :"I am sure I can do things in Vue that are simply not possible in Maya or Max. " If you are sure...

lol !!