Hi Lynn,

"
-Single objects and complete scenes can be exported to high end 3D applications, including 3DS Max, Cinema 4D, LightWave, Maya, Softimage XSI and others;
[...]

-Full scene export and tree export will include all texturing.
"

I don't want to sound like a party pooper, but--alarm bells are ringing. I definetely hope there will be a demo of Vue 4Pro out during the sidegrade period. As is, the listed render applications have vastly different approaches for procedural textures and shaders, often varying even between different versions of one software package.

Unless Vue simply converts all texturing into bitmaps (not acceptable), I can't see any technically feasible way to import Vue's prodedural textures in any other render app without either a lot of hassle on the end user's side to tweak textures after importing a scene, or lots and lots of development and support time on e-on's to write plugins for all listed "and other" applications to even support stuff like Vue's "influence of slope" mapping option. I won't even mention the "procedural types" and mixing algorithms.

But then, I wouldn't mind being pleasently surprised. :) I'll definetely keep my eyes open for the Demo.

All in all: Great news! So please excuse my scepticism.

93,
-Sascha