I just received my Vue 5 upgrade and thought I would share my first thoughts running on a Mac..

First if you are wondering what is in the upgrade package, it is the same as the retail except no Box. The manual, 2 Cd's (Hybrid Mac and PC versions), Reg card with Vue5 Serial number and ads are all included. Likely it is the serial number that differentiates an upgrade from a full version..

As I learn more I will post more thoughts on the upgrade.

Installation
I had no problem with a typical install, everything went smooth. However I wanted to install all the sample files from the Extras CD so I did a custom install, which installs everything. During the install you are asked for the Extras disc. Everything went fine until I got to the Samples 3/z03_jealousy.vue file. This file caused a read error from the disc and aborted the install. I tried copying it from two other drives, including a PoweBook G4 and a G5, directly from the finder and recieved an error there too. Perhaps it is just a bad disc. I left a message for e-on and will report back when I get an answer. No big deal, standard install works fine...

Launch Vue 5

So far so good, everything looks good and the OpenGL preview is vastly superior to the previous OpenGL implementation that seemed a little quirky. You get much more detail in the windows and increased speed to boot! You even see details such as lens flare and textures, excellent improvement!

I rendered a sample scene with a terrain and the standard canyon material and it rendered faster and looked better then the equivalent Vue 4 scene. Very nice. I will be having more fun with this later, and when I get more details I will add to this thread.

One funny bug I found was in the attached picture. Hehe The Application menu says About Vue 4 Professional when it should say About Vue 5 Esprit. hehe Someone missed that one!

Any other Mac users notice any of these?

More to come....

Regards,

Paul

What size are the interface icons? Quite some time ago, I contacted them about fixing this (bigger or custom icon sizes such as in C4DXL) in a future upgrade, and they said they were considering it...

Hi, You can sorta see the size with the image I took above. I took that at a resolution of 1024X768 and was not resized. So it seems the icons are the same size as Vue 4. To me they are just right, but thats just me... Regards, Paul