Heh- when has E-ON ever decended their THRONE to come out and talk with the MASSES and ask them what they want in the NEXT RELEASE???

Never seen them do that at all, but not many companies do that. They often ask people personally, I've been asked personal by a number of companies, including E-ON, what I would like to see in the next version. Some of my suggestions were implemented into Vue 5, others weren't.

 

I tried C5Pro but was very disapointed. The feature set is impressive alright. It promises a lot, but  in the end, I found it rather, um, shallow. Like an application that's trying to do everything but doesn't manage to do anything really well - it's stretched too thin. But it's definetely worth cojnsidering if you're looking at getting into 3D. If you're serious, I'd recommend Cinema4D or LightWave (they had a great deal with eon until recently).

I'm not sure if you tried the same applications as I did. I've been a long time Cinema4D user (never liked Lightwave though), but I do prefer using Carrara, but there are a number of features still missing in Carrara. The way Carrara has been growing I'm pretty sure the day will arive that it will outgrow Cinema4D. If you call Carrara shallow, you didn't really give it a good try at all.

One thing that seems to be seriously lacking from Carrara is the auto-updating mini-preview that is such a useful feature of both Vue and Bryce. It means that you can't see the effect of, for instance, changes to the atmosphere until you do a render.

I'm really glad it's lacking, it's the first thing I always switched off in Vue and Bryce. The mini-preview is pretty much useless for larger scenes, especially if you don't own the latest high end pc.

 

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Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
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