Lynn opened this issue on Sep 08, 2003 ยท 75 posts
drnw04a posted Mon, 08 September 2003 at 10:14 AM
It looks like a lot of enhancements have been worked in to the product. A couple of questions (if answers are available): Will Vue now be sold in two versions? For the average hobbyist dabbling in landscape creation, the 'vintage' Vue that could be had for around $200 was a great deal. Five or six hundred is a much different story, and it sounds like some of the new features will only be useful to people working in a true studio environment. Hopefully, the moderately priced Vue we've all grown to love will remain on the market to continue to draw hobbyists. I'm sure some people will complain bitterly that all of these new features should be rolled into the standard Vue, but they need to realize they've been getting a lot of power at a very low price for a long time. Will a demo of the Pro 'sidegrade' be available to existing Vue users? It would be nice to at least see all of the new features in action before deciding if its personally worth it to purchase it. In the future, it might be worth it to look into releasing enhancements to modeling, animation, and rendering as separate plug-ins or 'packs' (similar to Mover) and releasing integration capabilities separately. I think almost all Vue users would pay for the plant editor and the wind animation, but not all need the synch with other packages, compositing enhancements, etc. Really looking to seeing more of this....