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Evidently, 3D Exploration has been bought out. So much for our lifetime free upgrades? The new deal states that versions since 1.5.3 require something they call an "Enterprize Licence" (cost-- $199.00 !!!). Well, I'm a registered, licensed user of version 1.6, which I got about a month or so ago. So, am I now illegal? I can't wait to see how THIS turns out!

I just tried to download the trial version and the download page is no longer available.

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what!??!?!? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! no, we're not illegal. we bought the contract under the previous owners, these new guys dont enter into it. i only have 1.2.54... when'd all these new ones come out???! anyhow, i hope the creators of the program got a good deal. dont think these new guys are gonna sell as many at THAT price point. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH! RIGHT HEMISPHERE bought it!? the guys with the overpriced texturing proggie, deep paint!??? yeeeeesh.

I download the version 1.7 from Right Hemisphere and when i install it on my registred version 1.6 ,i got the entreprise version registred to RH. So everything seems ok

Thanks for the info, Martial! Bloodsong, why are you still using v. 1.2.54??? Criminy! You just got Rhino---you have Vue---but you use Wizip 6 and 3DX 1.2 and 1/2! Wussup wit' dat? Don't make no sense! scratching head in disbelief ;) Don't get mad---been a while since I took a shot at YOU! BTW, the 1.6 version has fixed the 3DS export---so they say, and will also allow .lwo, v. 5.6 and 6.0--- I don't know about older versions, but 1.6 also imports/converts .3dm models, as well as .3mf (3Dmf). I find it TREMENDOUSLY useful! Also, how come you had nothing to say about my big Amorphium/Vue post below a little ways? I was certain you'd have some insight on THAT one! grrrrrrrrrrr.....

heyas; um, well... nobody TOLD me there were any upgrades to the silly thing. i never had a problem with it (i dont use it as much as you do, bud)... :: and i told ya, winzip 6 is the one i bought and paid for. though it doesn't realize that, so i guess it will work the same if i upgrade. and what about the amorphium post? um... no, no insight on that one. sorry. i have no idea why it came out a smaller file size. or how amorphium smoothed it. or anything, really. :) heck, i dont use amorphium that much, either. ah yes, i wanted to speak to you about that last shot you took at me... threatening to kick me out of here and into the bryce forum for reading a bryce book to apply to vue. funny thing, though, seems you -- in that same thread-- confessed to OWNING bryce 4! i dont own any bryce.... hmmm... maybe WE should kick YOU out! :) (naah, then who'll do all the work??) what were we talking about? oh. well, the 'free unregistered' version does all the things 3dx does, you only need to buy it if you want to render junk. knowing my machine, it probably doesn't do that, anyway. oh wait.... it DOES say that 'convert between file formats' is extra! d'oh!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH! RIGHT HEMISPHERE bought it!? the guys with the overpriced texturing proggie, deep paint!??? yeeeeesh. -- Hey, hey now! I've got that Deep Paint, and it is FAN-TAS-TIC! Well worth every penny they sucked out of me in exchange for it. No really, honest. it really is worth what they're charging. It's no Paint Shop Pro. :)

Just received an email from Right Hemisphere with a link to the free ( to registered users ) upgrade to the 3D Explorer Enterprise edition. RH is imho one of the more decent companies , when I had trouble installing the D/L version of Deeppaint , they send me the boxed version free of charge.

"in that same thread-- confessed to OWNING bryce 4!" For that matter, I bought Bryce 4 at about the SAME time as Vue 3! Guess which one has been collecting more Virtual-dust? ;) ...... "it DOES say that 'convert between file formats' is extra! d'oh!" EXTRA?! Yeah, I'd say--- exactly $160.00 extra! "Doh", is right!

Only important maater is ofcourse that current registered owners don't have to pay the $160 to get that "upgrade".

Yeah, but it's evidently going to be a question of whether or not our promised lifetime free upgrade will be honored or not. Right Hemisphere says that this particular upgrade to 1.7 will be a one-time deal. :(

Lifetime free upgrade deals on the internet last as long as "the grass grows,the wind blows and the sky is blue" but in 999/1000 they are over within a year. If you feel you are entitled to the free upgrades you're being denied treat the company in kind.

I understand and agree, hein. Sad, but true...as you suggest,just as they are not obligated to support the former license, I am not required to stay loyal...... ;)

mike mike mike... a lifetime free upgrade isn't for YOUR life time. its for the company who made it's lifetime. now that they're dead... lifetime's over! :) i dont care if 1.7 is 160$. i get along just fine with 1.2.54. nyah! :) (yes yes yes, i downloaded... 1.6. aint installed it yet.)