I am curious who uses Vue for use in their business for profit and the ones who only use for hobby work. I am one the people who use Vue for hobby work and have never sold an image for money since finding Vue. Same with other computer related software that I have bought. :)

I use vue for hobby only too because Im a beginner and my pics are still pretty ugly ;) since eons handbook is in english, itll still take me a while to understand the program....my english isnt really good :(

Strictly hobby! :)

For the love of it - the hobby.

Hobby. A pretty time-consuming one, too.

Profit and hobby :) Cheers

Cool hobby

For fun and hobby only :o).

For the love of art!

But non-commercial.
Or maybe i should say "both", because i used it to illustrate my new e-book on how images work and how to make yours work better, for digital artists. If i sell enough e-books, i guess i can claim commercial use of Vue :o)

Vue 5i is really great for creating book illustrations. I don't doubt that the better hobby users here could sell their ilustrations if they did good marketing

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Primarily use Cinema4D but occasionally use Vue5E when I want easy atmospherics+trees+an extended landscape without emphasis on the architecture of a model. Use both for "art" and for my work. I just purchased Lightune for my 5E so I can do more work with accurate shading/shadows on imported .3ds models. If Infinite ever gets most of the bugs/crashes straightened out, I'd really like to try it for my work. Right now I have too many deadlines in my little one-man-show. Got to have something near rock solid - like C4D.

both

I use Vue for profit. :) I do book covers and Vue's renderer is superior to P5's and I like the fact that it allows you to render to disk since most of my work is very large. I am hoping at some point to pick up a copy of C4D to use for rendering as well as it's renderer is far superior to anything I now own. Of course I also use it for hobby as well when I work on things for my own personal gratification.

For both but why the curiosity? Is it because those who use it for profit expect more and voice it when the program is failing in it's promises?

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I sold a few images to a (now defunct) magazine and used it to illustrate a variety of material for clubs I'm a member of and events I've helped organise. Also to do Birthday and Christmas cards for friends. Mostly however for fun and to keep my hand in with lighting having studied it at University and then never used it in real life.

I hope the defunctness of the magazine had nothing to do with your images - hehe kidding of course!!!! love esther

I've just downloaded the demo version of Vue 5 infinite. I'm still an absolute noob with the interface. It's quite a bit expensive for a hobby, so I guess I'll try it for the 60 days of the demo version.

For me Vue is primarily a hobby, but actually most of my images are done to turn a little money as well. I work on comics quite a bit, and these bring in a modest return.

Hobby.

Work and hobby.

Vue for hobby. I have only Vue Esprit, but I think that Infinite provides the same stability as Esprit. For professional software I would rely on C4D, because the 'out of memory messages' in Vue appear very unexpected and much too often. I have to admit though that the eco-system is a nice feature and Vue can do some amazing landscape renders.

Hobby, but maybe profit in a near future...

Hobby, but I'm working on the profit angle

i use vue in my daily job, however as with everything thats related to art, design, media and it, its also a passion of life so its of course a big hobby aswell.

To answer purpleclouds question why I posted this thread. I was really curious to see if it was used mostly for professional work or as a tool for the hobbiest. Its Interestsing to see so many use it as a hobbist tool. I think the reason for lots of the heated arguements are from most people who do like the program and want to see it succeed. Thats how I feel and why I been so vocal with lots the changes I have seen in the last few months that to me are not making it the tool I bought it for. Personaly and this is only my way of thinking is it should always stayed a stand alone application without all the extra work and time involved to get encryted and copy protected in it that has had to have a big drain on the developers from working on the program to get bugs out and make it a better program for all that has invested hard erned money into it for pure simple pleasure as most say they use it for. Every time a new model is up for sale it will have to be encoded so its tied to one of the versions of Vue it will be used in. Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer my question for this thread and please do not use my last comment as a start of another arguement. I think e-on knows most peoples feelings and it will show if I am correct when new upgrade time comes round again. If I am wrong then so be it I gave it my best shot at trying to have my say so e-on might make it the best progam that is available for us hobbiest and pros alike. :) I am sure the future will show us how it all plays out. :)

Hobby!

Though Poser's render engins is actually better, I use Vue to render Poser scenes that I can only get screenshots with in Poser.

Though Poser's render engins is actually better, I use Vue to render Poser scenes that I can only get screenshots with in Poser. Truthfully I wouldn't say anything that isn't free is for a hobbyist!