Here is two pictures I made with Vue 5 Infinite. This one is rendered with Radiosity and indirect skylighting enabled. Superior render mode. Only one light is used in addition to sunlight, and that is to provide a slight back-lighting to the bonsai. The ecosystem distribution feature is used in two places, in a subtle way, to create the flower-bed at the edge of the background patch, and to add a little low grass for variety in the mid-ground patch.

XLT work Orio! Can't wait for my copy to arrive :)

This is a very simple landscape of a promontory over the sea. Radiosity is used, and the goal of this picture is to show how the ecosystem distribution tool alone can provide interest to any scene, even an otherwise almost barren scene such as this one. The Ecosystem distribution is used to both scatter rocks around and to scatter grass on both the terrains and the rocks. Vue 5 Infinite is a very solid software for me, and as far as I am concerned, it doesn't have any memory management issue or warning. It works smoothly.

WHOOHOO!!!!! Are the procedurals more stable???? This is so exciting :)

Impressive.... You stated " ... it doesn't have any memory management issue or warning ..." Could you please give a summary of your system (OS - processor - memory - AGP card ...). I am planning to buy a new computer and this should help me making some decissions. Thanks & Regards.

thanks dlk30341 I am not sure to understand what you mean with the procedurals more stable. Could you please develop further? edversyp, I mainly tested Infinite on my laptop, which is a XP Home SP1 system on a Pentium4 2.8 GHz, 1Gb RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce openGL card that experts tell me is made only for the laptops (meaning it's different from the cards they make for the normal computers). I have to admit that I used to have some memory management problem with dense scenes using past versions of Vue 5 esprit on all my computers (which include the aforementioned laptop and two desktop units, one featuring XP Pro on a pentium 4 2.4Ghz and 1GbRAM and Radeon graphic board, another featuring Win2000 on a Pentium 3 800Mhz 750MbRAM and GeForceII graphic board). But I have not tested yet the latest Esprit patch so the problems may have been solved there too. As for Infinite, the fact that the problems are gone on my laptop (and the fact that other testers have reported the great improvements on the memory management side) makes me expect that it will behave well on my desktop unit too :-) And - you all will love the new distribution tool :-) Because it uses an instancing system that does not overcharge the system even with high numbers of replicas. I judge this release of 5 Infinite, the most significant progress in Vue's evolution since the transition form version 3 to version 4.

The new patch for V5/V5P is superb. Been working on a scene today..with Yahoo open/Internet up and all other background programs running. NO crashes/NO slowdown etc. I was adding/deleting/moving around 70 plots of grass :) Procedurals, still at times give my puter fits. Especially while in the node editor, while trying tweak. Puter crashes. This is usually happens when I go beyond 4 mats per terrain. That said, I haven't tried messing with this since the new patch. That said again, it's all a moot point anyway, because once V5I arrives....this will be off my puter :)

well, editing procedurals down in the node editor isn't something I have really done so very much, so I may not be totally reliable on that, but - I can not remember any crash using the latest betas and release candidates.

Thanks Orio...goods news to hear indeed :)