I know alot of you just got it but what do you think so far? I have Vue 5 but want to do more animation stuff so I'm thinking of upgrading. How's the render speed? Any better? Thanks

Fast... Very Fast as you have the option to Bake the global and Radiosity lighting (not only for single picture but for the entire animation) meaning it only has to calculate the lighting once (on the first frame). Hope this helps:)

Great...that helps alot. Thanks. How's stability?

I have had a few problems, but they were my fault. I am testing the limits of the App as well as my PC. Trying to see how far I can push everything. Eg... Editing the materials while baking the lighting. Populating the scene with 3 Eco-Systems calculating at the same time while editing the lighting. And this is what I am using... Supermicro 7043Ai Superserver featuring PNY NVIDIA 980XGL : Supermicro SC742i chassis with an option to be convered into a 4U chassis Redundant Cooling "Low-Noise" 450W power supply 7 x 3.5" IDE internal drive bays 9cm hot-plug "low-noise" cooling fan Heavy-duty 12cm "low-noise" exhaust fan 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy drive & 3 x 5.25" Drive bays Supermicro X5DAE Dual Xeon motherboard 1 x 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X 2 x 64-bit 100MHz PCI-X 2 x 32-bit 33MHz PCI Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet controller AC'97 audio CODEC high quality 6-channel sound 2 x Intel Xeon 2.8GHz processors, 533Mhz FSB with Hyperthreading support Validated heatsinks for the above with Coolermaster high performance thermal compound 80Gb hard disk drive, 7,200RPM PIONEER DVD Rom Drive Philips 40 x CDRW drive with software 2 x Corsair 512Mb System validated registered DDR memory modules Coolermaster High Performance Heat compound Fully built, configured and tested. GRAPHICS CARD PNY NVIDIA 980XGL

Wow, now that's a system. Looking forward to more observations on VI. Thanks

How good is it, hm, best summed up by Rimmer from Red Dwarf:
SMOKE ME A KIPPER, I'LL BE BACK FOR BREAKFAST!
;)

I've had several crashes, but I'm messing around with complex ecosystems based off complex models and since I'm experimenting it's my fault probably, lol. Seems stable when I'm not doing really weird things.

From just messing about:
-Ecossystems, so good it's sexy.
-Ordinary booleans, you can "bake" them into final polygon forms.
-Seems to use memory better, but maybe that's just me.
-Can decimate models, so VERY nice for reducing poly counts on models at a distance etc.

Message edited on: 03/17/2005 16:05

I am patiently waiting for mine to ship so its good to read some positive early reviews.

Very difficult to read this, replaced 3 keyboards already due to the flood of drool....lol Still waiting for mine to ship. Marque

I am finding render times a lot faster than Vue5. As far as stability, I think those of us using it right now are pushing it to the limits - both program and machine. And then it crashes. If I would just settle down and do "normal" scenes, I'm sure things would be fine. (It will be a while before that happens though). ;-) Meanwhile, I'm loving it.

Somebody knows where I can find Tutorials of the editor procedural nodes? The editor is quite complex