wildstormfilms opened this issue on Jan 09, 2006 ยท 57 posts
svdl posted Thu, 12 January 2006 at 2:46 AM
100 megs? Small. My Vue5I scenes often reach 300 megs+, excluding texture maps. Vue has its rendering issues. Soft raytraced shadows tends to be grainy, unless you tweak the antialiasing settings and the amount of subrays, but then the render times go through the roof. Even on a fairly powerful machine (Athlon64 4400x2 with 4 GB RAM) render times for a large still can be measured in days, sometimes. Vue is not a modeling app and does not pretend to be. You can do some booleans, that's all. Then again, you have 3DS Max, so you already have a high end modeling app. The renderfarming ability is limited. When a scene is too complex to render to screen, renderfarming is disabled. Vue5I does not come in 64bit (yet???), so it's limited to 2 GB address space. And I often run into that limit. Vue5I is easy to use, and the manual is pretty good. All in all, I'd say it's worth the money. I enjoy Vue5I.
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