Forum: Vue


Subject: VUE's *MANY* DEFICIENCIES: Does PRO correct these ???

timoteo1 opened this issue on Oct 06, 2003 ยท 23 posts


forester posted Mon, 06 October 2003 at 1:11 PM

Part 2 - Vue 4 and prior do have poor Open GL support. Many commentors in this Forum have pointed out that Vue Pro does have pretty good Open GL support this time around. Its not quite perfect, but then I'm using it on an old dual 800 CPU rig, rather than the 1.6 Mhz CPU system its rated for. So, Ive crashed it twice - but just with extremely high polygon count scenes. Other than that, I think the Open GL is pretty darn good. (Finally, thank goodness!) I use Bryce. Its probably an overstatment to say that its screen updates are "instantaneous." Animation controls and variables are significantly better in Vue Pro. Typically, Vue does not offer a significant (complex) animation editing and compositing feature set. Neither does Bryce nor most of the general-purpose scenery/environment editing programs. Even MAX has carved off its animation product into a separate package called "Combustion." Truespace and MAYA have added to their's, but they are not scenery/environment modelling packages. Trade-offs - trade-offs! Kutter spoke to the Booleans issue. Vue has always had some Boolean operations, and they've always worked as the Manual has stated. Vue is not a 3D modelling program, however. Bryce has some Boolean operations as well, and they're probably a tiny little bit superior to Vue's. But if you really want to build models, you need to get a modelling program. Back to animation again. Keyframing controls in Vue Pro and in Mover are just great! I really liked developing and editing several animations I just made in Vue Pro with these. Fine quality and very standard keyframing abilities! So, that's it for my current experiences. Vue Pro offers four types of animation sequences, "Ease-In/Ease Out" now being just one of the offerings.