Forum: Vue


Subject: OT What was going so well

purplecloud opened this issue on Dec 01, 2005 ยท 46 posts


Dale B posted Fri, 02 December 2005 at 10:19 PM

Or he might have meant these question, agiel.... ;) purplecloud; (1) What happened to the pine trees is that there were reports of problems. So they were pulled to be fixed or examined (there have been a few times that the 'problems' were nothing of the sort, btw), and as they are fixed, they are reinserted into the store in a beta state until the mods at Cornucopia can test them. Once -we- are satisfied, they go active again (and barring a database corruption, they are still in purchasers database, and are simply re-downloaded). (2) The bonny clump is 'new'....to the Cornucopia store environment. If you had looked, you would have noticed that -all- of the 10 plant species e-on used to carry on their site were listed as 'new' when they were added to the store's database. (3) The free content at Cornucopia is frankly a lower priority than getting the site debugged fully, getting the damage done to the Vue app by the triply blown 5.08 updates of a few months ago straightened out, and getting the 3rd party vendor system online. Once the program works smoothly, the site is smooth, and the creators, who've been incredibly patient, are set to sell, that is most likely next in the queue. Anyone here remember the very early days of Rosity, and the number of yowls about how long it was taking to get X fixed? How the color scheme sucked? The freestuff was clunky? The store was a PITA to maneuver? Etc, etc, etc? You were not fleshing anything out, PC. You were getting into an Eovia lovefest where it didn't belong, and there were more than a few snarky personal attacks buried in amongst all the fanboy drooling over Carrara. Personally, I can't stand that piece of tripe. The interface sucketh mightily. Those claims of an 'intuitive interface' might be true for a 3 armed dyslexic alien from Proxima, but for me it was about a counter intuitive as picking my nose with my knee. That is simply =my= opinion...and it does not change the fact that for many people, the software in question is a good one for their toolkit. Infinite is a good one for =my= toolkit; I've tried several packages out, and those that do not work as advertised, or do not fit my flow, are cast aside without any urge whatsoever to bombard any fora related to them with repeated posts as to how I think they stink. I can find better things to do with my time...like making CG movies. Or helping someone else out with a problem if I can. Oh. And correct me if I'm wrong, but Cararra -5- is still a pre-order item, ne? That would mean that only someone beta testing it (assuming it -is- in beta, of course) could possibly comment factually on what these new features =actually= can do. And an actual beta tester would be under NDA...or at least I've been under one whenever I've betatested something commercial...and so would legally be =required= to keep their big mouth shut. Also true? In other words, everyone in the locked thread was yammering on about something not in release.....a situation that would sort of be like me going into the Cararra forum yammering away about all the neato features coming in Vue 6 Infinite. Which hasn't reached the alpha state yet to my knowledge. Fortunately, I have more couth, better manners, and far more interesting things to do with my time than engaging in such behavior.